Abstinence Quotes · Page 5

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

— William Blake

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

— Girdhar Joshi

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

— Lance Morrow

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

— Albert Einstein

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

My imaginary girlfriend's giving up sex for Lent. Palm Sunday's taking on a whole new meaning for me.

— Rudy Espinoza

I was a teenager, we were pretty much fully indoctrinated, thanks to sexual scare tactics. I remember so many public-health commercials with…

— Michael Stipe

The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can…

— Rick Santorum

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

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

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

Sexual activity, and the thoughts and fantasies of sex, use up a great portion of our vital force. When that force is…

— Patanjali

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

Idiots must stop claiming that atheism is a religion. Religion is defined as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling…

— Bill Maher

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

— William Temple

[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

If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to…

— Herman Melville

I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

— Vance Havner

If you own pornography of any kind, for the love of your future spouse, trash it immediately.

— Jason Evert

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

— Rebecca West

Sexual abstinence limits the impact of irrational passions on the mind, thus liberating it for love of genuine goodness and truth...

— Anonymous

Ramps have been employed to look in the bins along the marathon route in London for suspicious packages. They will be paid…

— Anonymous

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had…

— Giacomo Casanova

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

— Wilhelm Reich

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

A new study found that students who are taught abstinence end up with better math scores. Of course, if you join the…

— Jimmy Fallon

“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

“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

Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.

— Rachel Maddow

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

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total…

— Samuel Butler

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

“Without self-worth, abstinence is just another rule you'll break when someone makes you feel special.”

— Amani Darena

Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.

— Thomas McEvilley

The evidence does not support abstinence-only interventions as the best way to keep young people from unintended pregnancy.

— Jonathan Klein

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