Abstinence Quotes
126 Abstinence quotes by 96 unique authors
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
— Saint Augustine
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
— Samuel Butler
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I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.
— Kurt Angle
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My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the…
— Robert E. Lee
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The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.
— Clement of Alexandria
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Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.
— Rachel Maddow
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If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
— Albert Einstein
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Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
— Frances E. Willard
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When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at…
— Clive James
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Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
— Robert Herrick
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It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with…
— James Madison
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You always hold the key of repentance to unlock the prison door. If they throw the word diversity at you, grab hold of it and…
— Boyd K. Packer
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Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.
— Lance Morrow
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Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.
— Unknown Author
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Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person.
— Josef Pieper
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Our main reproductive organ is our brain.
— Molly Kelly
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If you can control yourself sexually, you can control yourself. Period.
— A. C. Green
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If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.
— Catherine Breillat
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I would like to outlaw contraception... contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure.
— Joseph Scheidler
Who Wrote These Abstinence Quotes
96 authors contributed a total of 126 Abstinence Quotes, led by these top contributors: