The true smoker abstains from imitating Vesuvius.
— Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.
— Ambrose Bierce
Who is there that abstains from reading that which is printed in abuse of himself? — Anthony Trollope
If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame. — Thomas Aquinas
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains. — Francois Rabelais
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. — George Eliot
