“If I stop sleeping together for all time it will mean that I have been mistaken. Otherwise why should I stop it?… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Yesterday is over and a new day is here make what you can count. Make your kids laugh, spend time with your… — Kevin McCarty Copy Share Image
“Who never wanted, ― maddest joy Remains to him unknown ; The banquet of abstemiousness Surpasses that of wine. Within its hope,… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Without self-worth, abstinence is just another rule you'll break when someone makes you feel special.” — Amani Darena 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
Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate. — Lance Morrow 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
Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there. — William Blake Copy Share Image
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence… — Joseph Heller 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
Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“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 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
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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