Abstinence Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes…

— Tim O'Reilly

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.

— Margaret Atwood

Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

— Ambrose Bierce

I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share

— Quentin Crisp

Abstemiousness in diet and control of the passions, will preserve the intellect and give mental and moral vigor, enabling men to bring all their…

— Ellen G. White

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in…

— Eric Temple Bell

Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man…

— Max Stirner

“My father believes hunger is in the mind. I know differently. I know that hunger is in the mind and the body and the…

— Roxane Gay

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence

— Anonymous