Abstinence Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abstinence Difficult Easy Happiness Temperance Would be
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate. — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sexual activity, and the thoughts and fantasies of sex, use up a great portion of our vital force. When that force is conserved through… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
When a married person uses pornography, or is unfaithful, it compromises not just his (or her) purity, but also compromises the spouse's purity. As… — Christine O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“Look, choosing to wait until marriage makes me feel empowered. But if the same choice cripples you, then it wasn't the right one.” — Rachael Allen Copy Share Image
Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them.… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised. — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence. — Isuna Hasekura Copy Share Image
I went to an all-girls Catholic school. And all the nuns just breathed down our necks "abstinence." And that's not the right thing to… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
How do we want our air? Pure. How do we want our water? Pure. How do we want sex on our wedding night? Pure. — Molly Kelly Copy Share Image
“There’s gratification in abstaining from the easy choice. Instant gratification can bring more suffering than pleasure. If I do the hard thing, the next… — Cecily Wang Copy Share Image