Continence Quotes

10 quotes by 8 authors

• Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. — Saint Augustine
• I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'. Then,… — Gore Vidal
• Many good people, being influenced by the bold spirit of the times, are now seeking surgery for the wife or the husband so they may… — Spencer W. Kimball
• What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all… — John Milton
• Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps. — Amos Bronson Alcott
• Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)! — Saint Augustine
• The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. — Pope John Paul II
• I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual… — Robert A. Heinlein
• Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like… — Ernest Hemingway

Who Wrote These Continence Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 10 Continence Quotes as follows:

• 2 Continence Quotes by Saint Augustine
• 1 Continence Quote by Gore Vidal
• 1 Continence Quote by Spencer W. Kimball
• 1 Continence Quote by John Milton
• 1 Continence Quote by Amos Bronson Alcott
• 1 Continence Quote by Pope John Paul II
• 1 Continence Quote by Robert A. Heinlein
• 1 Continence Quote by Ernest Hemingway