Abstinence Quotes · Page 6

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

— Oscar Wilde

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a…

— Samuel Johnson

“If I stop sleeping together for all time it will mean that I have been mistaken. Otherwise why should I stop it?…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“For Justine's conception of virtue is a specifically feminine one in that sexual abstinence plays a large part in it. In common…

— Angela Carter

Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely…

— Jean Toomer

I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience,…

— Harold Brodkey

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

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

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

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

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

How will it be with us in the future life, when everything that has gratified us in this world: riches, honors, food…

— John of Kronstadt

It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the…

— James Madison

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

— Wilhelm Reich

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

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

— Queen Victoria

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

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

— Rebecca West

“Sometimes, being told not to do something just makes us want it all the more. Sometimes, a little of what you crave…

— Joanne Harris

“The great sexual energy that one has on abstinence can be transformed into art, poetry, dance, and inventions.”

— Girdhar Joshi

Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.

— William Blake

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a…

— Samuel Johnson

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

— Albert Einstein

Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.

— Lance Morrow

This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives…

— Charles Lamb

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

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

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