It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In…

“How can we abstain from sexual immorality? Only God can give us the grace.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control…

— Scotty Smith

Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

“And finally that I tend to regard marriage as a promise: the error is not in not keeping it but in making it. ”

— Gordon Sheppard

“Many pagans who had been brought up to regard marriage essentially as a social and economic arrangement, homosexual relationships as an expected element of…

— Elaine Pagels

“One morning, some weeks after her arrival at Lowick, Dorothea - but why always Dorothea? Was her point of view the only possible one…

— George Eliot

But fairness is where we’re heading, at least in regard to marriage, which has emerged as the terrain on which Americans are hashing out…

— Frank Bruni

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

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

— Toni Bentley

In doubt if an action is just, abstain.

— Zoroaster

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