“Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.” — Xenophon Copy Share Image
“There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale.” — Joseph Livesey Copy Share Image
Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Abstinence makes the arm grow stronger. — Anonymous 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
Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution. — Aldo Leopold 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
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a… — Samuel Johnson 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
“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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the… — Leo Tolstoy 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
I was vegetarian, trying to eat from fast-food restaurants without meat. I didn't know how to eat properly and I was starving.… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
“I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
You always hold the key of repentance to unlock the prison door. If they throw the word diversity at you, grab hold… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A condom is cheaper than child support & abstinence is free. Pay attention. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse. — Joycelyn Elders 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
Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised. — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
