Abstinence Quotes

126 Abstinence quotes by 96 unique authors

Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms. — Joycelyn Elders
Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with other dogs, roam, sleep, have… — Jon Katz
The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly… — Boyd K. Packer
Abstinence for me is about romance. It has nothing to do with my relationship with God. It's definitely a bonus in that department, but it's… — Jessica Simpson
Satan represents indulgence, instead of abstinence! Satan represents vital existence, instead of spiritual pipe dreams! Satan represents undefiled wisdom, instead of hypocritical self-deceit! Satan represents… — Anton Szandor LaVey
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity. — Seneca the Younger
Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain the four corners… — Gian Carlo Menotti
Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position. — Richard Dawkins
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue. — Samuel Johnson
Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent… — Thucydides
Satanism encourages its followers to indulge in their natural desires. Only by doing so can you be a completely satisfied person with no frustrations which… — Anton Szandor LaVey
Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed with pure waters,… — Elif Safak
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason. — Robert South
Abstinence is easier than temperance. — Seneca the Younger
When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture. — Tom Perrotta
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. — Vance Havner
Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring:… — Rabindranath Tagore
The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest. — Wilhelm Reich
I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants. — Dick Cavett
Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution. — Aldo Leopold
Abstinence is the surety of temperance. — Plato
Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly. — Charles Dickens
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. — Epictetus

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