Abstinence Quote by Oscar Wilde

It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.

— Aristippus

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

— Saint Augustine

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

— Ann Radcliffe

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

— Plato

“Sometimes, being told not to do something just makes us want it all the more. Sometimes, a little of what you crave is better…

— Joanne Harris

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

— Saint Augustine

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

— Ambrose Bierce

No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign.

— James Norwood Pratt

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

— Anonymous

Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

— Anais Nin

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure…

— Rebecca West

Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.

— Democritus