When you doubt, abstain.

Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.

— Josh Billings

When you are in doubt abstain.

— Zoroaster

In doubt if an action is just, abstain.

— Zoroaster

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

— Saint Augustine

Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain…

— Henry David Thoreau

The Christian must abstain from sin. It is as simple and direct as that. You have no right to say, 'I am weak, I…

— Martyn

When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.

— Zoroaster

When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much,…

— Jonathan Edwards

We live only to dance. If living were not an essential prerequisite, we would abstain.

— Toni Bentley

I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it…

— Elaine Stritch

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

— Epictetus

Make no mistake: Deciding to abstain from the Pledge of Allegiance does communicate something, and therefore, it is a form of speech. It's also…

— Kat Timpf

“THAT you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves, from these you do…

— Lailah Gifty Akita

When you are near I abstain myself,but when you are away I badly miss you sweetheart.

— Pappi Reddy

We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to…

— John Randolph of Roanoke