A new study found that students who are taught abstinence end up with better math scores. Of course, if you join the… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
When you're dating, abstinence is a greater expression of love than making love, because you're doing what's best for your beloved, not… — Jason Evert Copy Share Image
Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised. — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Sexual abstinence limits the impact of irrational passions on the mind, thus liberating it for love of genuine goodness and truth... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ramps have been employed to look in the bins along the marathon route in London for suspicious packages. They will be paid… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“If I stop sleeping together for all time it will mean that I have been mistaken. Otherwise why should I stop it?… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
And we can't discharge that moral responsibility by passing out contraceptives. Contraceptives have been circulating all over Uganda, and it is not… — Eugene Rivers Copy Share Image
I'm against suing tobacco companies. I think abstinence is a perversion. I think Bush's lies are worse than Clinton's. I think Vegas… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“The world pampers the body with food and material comforts," she said. "They appease the flesh but are enemies of the spirit.… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. They are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“There is more to life than what we know and there is more to sex than what we know.Life was designed by… — Oladepo Olatunbosun Copy Share Image
Most cultures traditionally link food and spirituality directly with periodic restrictions and celebrations punctuating the year. Abstinence from particular foods or full-on… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his… — Benedict of Nursia Copy Share Image
Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
If by how you dress, you are saying to guys, "Hey, look at my body," why would a guy want to get… — Jason Evert Copy Share Image
Mourning your abstinence from junk food is like mourning the loss of an enemy who would happily see you die. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't get it , my mom tells me to get her something so I get it .. when I ask her… — Armin Ferizovic Copy Share Image
“Wherever the religious neurosis has appeared on the earth so far, we find it connected with three dangerous prescriptions as to regimen:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Without self-worth, abstinence is just another rule you'll break when someone makes you feel special.” — Amani Darena Copy Share Image
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The evidence does not support abstinence-only interventions as the best way to keep young people from unintended pregnancy. — Jonathan Klein Copy Share Image
Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul. — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate. — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
Guys that get in a realtionship n dont give a fuck. They b like I'm posting my gurl all up on fb.!… — Armin Ferizovic Copy Share Image
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there. — William Blake Copy Share Image
It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted. — Aristippus Copy Share Image
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“The great sexual energy that one has on abstinence can be transformed into art, poetry, dance, and inventions.” — Girdhar Joshi Copy Share Image
