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: