If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food. — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Well, for me, gratuitous abstinence is just as bad as gratuitous sex.” — Bianca Sommerland Copy Share Image
I don't want my wife to sleep with anyone but me, and I want to give her the same respect. — Elijah Martin Copy Share Image
“Love is the only thing that changes abstinence from a prison into pleasure.” — Jihad Eltabey Copy Share Image
Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Guys that get in a realtionship n dont give a fuck. They b like I'm posting my gurl all up on fb.!… — Armin Ferizovic 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
“The great sexual energy that one has on abstinence can be transformed into art, poetry, dance, and inventions.” — Girdhar Joshi 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
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call ‘The Presumption of Sickness,’ i.e., the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Idiots must stop claiming that atheism is a religion. Religion is defined as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
There's something about that puritanical narrative of progress and upward mobility and work ethic that the glorification of abstinence fits pretty neatly… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Avoid the necessity of a physician, if you can, by careful attention to your diet. Eat what best agrees with your system,… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Sexual activity, and the thoughts and fantasies of sex, use up a great portion of our vital force. When that force is… — Patanjali 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
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
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
“From another visitor to Yasnaya Polyana we learn that Tolstoy and his two daughters are vegetarians. The young countesses do not object… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
“First, if you are a homosexual or feel that inclination, keep yourself pure. If you are unmarried, you should practice abstinence from… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“If being premenstrual is “innocence,” does that make those of us with periods guilty? And this really gets to the heart of… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“Have you heard of the Children of Mae?” “The cult?” She knew of a religious group whose members went door to door,… — Colleen Chen Copy Share Image
