To preach abstinence, I think, is absolutely not the right message to give to kids. — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
I think I'm an abstinence symbol. If I take my shirt off, people will not have babies. — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food. — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ? — Benny Hill 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
Permanently stuck between I really want to talk to you and I dont want to annoy you — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If your heart says, "Maybe I shouldn't be doing this," listen to your heart, pray for strength, and get out of the… — Jason Evert 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
The evidence does not support abstinence-only interventions as the best way to keep young people from unintended pregnancy. — Jonathan Klein 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
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
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
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
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
Vegetarianism is not implicitly important for the mental progress or the intellectual development, unless it is supposed to be a remedy to… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The secular, for all its goodness, does not defend itself very well against mindless and perpetual consumption. It cries out to be… — Robert Farrar Capon 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
I went to an all-girls Catholic school. And all the nuns just breathed down our necks "abstinence." And that's not the right… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
Love is the creative refinement of sex energy. And so, when love reaches perfection, the absence of sex automatically follows. A life… — Rajneesh 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
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
If you own pornography of any kind, for the love of your future spouse, trash it immediately. — Jason Evert 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
It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted. — Aristippus Copy Share Image
Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Love is the only thing that changes abstinence from a prison into pleasure.” — Jihad Eltabey Copy Share Image
Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it. — Mark Twain 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
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
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
Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised. — Rachel Maddow 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
“Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
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
“It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
