IT is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to… — Pope Clement I Copy Share Image
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving… — John Milton Copy Share Image
God is called jealous, angered, repentant, merciful, and foreknowing. These simply mean that, because He guards the chastity of every soul, He… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It took a couple of months before we were both convinced there were no rules about sexual activities in Hell and our… — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and,… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Adam was the image of God, he was man and woman, and yet neither of them before his Eve, but a masculine… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
[Christians] practiced moderation and chastity in marriage, for example, and Galen was puzzled at how they were able to do so. His… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“No sex?" He looked at me in disbelief. "Well if you can't have ze sex, what can you do?" For the sake… — Elna Baker Copy Share Image
People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image