If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, being told not to do something just makes us want it all the more. Sometimes, a little of what you crave… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
If you own pornography of any kind, for the love of your future spouse, trash it immediately. — Jason Evert Copy Share Image
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. — William Temple Copy Share Image
My imaginary girlfriend's giving up sex for Lent. Palm Sunday's taking on a whole new meaning for me. — Rudy Espinoza Copy Share Image
Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself. — J. William Schickel Copy Share Image
Satan represents indulgence, instead of abstinence! Satan represents vital existence, instead of spiritual pipe dreams! Satan represents undefiled wisdom, instead of hypocritical… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
We're doing a great disservice to our young people because the only protection is abstinence, as condoms have been proven fallible. The… — Christine O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience,… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Well, I think that abstinence has its place as part of a comprehensive health and sex education curriculum. It would be wrong… — Kerry Healey Copy Share Image
Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely… — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There's something about that puritanical narrative of progress and upward mobility and work ethic that the glorification of abstinence fits pretty neatly… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
Idiots must stop claiming that atheism is a religion. Religion is defined as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Unchaste abandon and the self-surrender of the soul to the world of sensuality paralyzes the primordial powers of the moral person: the… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
The state, by relieving idleness, improvidence, or misconduct from punishment, and depriving abstinence and foresight of the reward, which have been provided… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Sexual activity, and the thoughts and fantasies of sex, use up a great portion of our vital force. When that force is… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
Avoid the necessity of a physician, if you can, by careful attention to your diet. Eat what best agrees with your system,… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Abstinence is practical and very realistic for some people, but others dont choose that path. For me, sex education was in school,… — Bristol Palin Copy Share Image
“Well, that brings us to the point: There is only one way to protect ourselves from the deadly diseases that stalk the… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call ‘The Presumption of Sickness,’ i.e., the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I'm working on something a little different. It's a technique I call, 'tantric abstinence.' Now, the way this works is I meet… — Christian Finnegan Copy Share Image
Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You're quite right there," he said. "I have practiced abstinence myself for years, and had my time of fasting, too, but now… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Satanism encourages its followers to indulge in their natural desires. Only by doing so can you be a completely satisfied person with… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
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