Abstinence Quotes
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Abstinence Quotes & Sayings
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A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.
— Oscar Wilde
The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price.
— Cecile Richards
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.
— Seneca The Younger
Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.
— Joycelyn Elders
Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins ...
— T. Rafael Cimino
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
— William Temple
Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?!
— Erma Bombeck
He was also a vociferous champion of abstinence from hard or spirituous liquors - but then no one's perfect. In
— David McCullough
Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.
— Aldo Leopold
Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!
— Anton Szandor LaVey
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
— Robert South
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
— Samuel Butler
Abstinence. It didn't even sound comfortable
— Stephanie Laurens
Ian was egotistical, perverted, and morally bankrupt, but he wasn't prone to overreacting about anything except involuntary abstinence.
— Jeaniene Frost
The great sexual energy that one has on abstinence can be transformed into art, poetry, dance, and inventions.
— Girdhar Joshi
Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.
— J. William Schickel
Abstinence is approved of God.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
There is no excuse for any spiritually minded person being confused over total abstinence from alcoholic beverages.
— Oliver B. Greene
Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.
— Rachel Maddow
Abstinence is easier than temperance.
— Seneca The Younger
Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The carefully constructed walls he'd built over years and years of abstinence came crashing down.
— Leta Blake
I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.
— Giacomo Casanova
There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale.
— Joseph Livesey
It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.
— Aristippus
Dude, you don't want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten.
— Junot Diaz
I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.
— Jacqueline Carey
Our main reproductive organ is our brain.
— Molly Kelly
Sexual intercourse is a gift that says, "Do not open until marriage." If you've already unwrapped it, wrap it up again!
— Molly Kelly
I think I'm an abstinence symbol. If I take my shirt off, people will not have babies.
— Jesse Eisenberg
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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice ...
— Queen Victoria
The only way to ensure completely safe sex with a 40-foot long, 6-ton predator is abstinence.
— Carrie Sessarego
If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.
— Catherine Breillat
Abstinence is a perversion.
— Bill Maher
While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence.
— Isuna Hasekura
I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.
— Joycelyn Elders
When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.
— Tom Perrotta
Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
— Saint Augustine
Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.
— Rebecca West
Refrain tonight And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence: the next more easy; For use alomost can change the stamp of nature
— William Shakespeare
Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The initial journey towards sobriety is a delicate balance between insight into one's desire for escape and abstinence from one's addiction.
— Debra L. Kaplan
Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.
— William Blake
No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.
— William Gilmore Simms
To preach abstinence, I think, is absolutely not the right message to give to kids.
— Molly Ringwald
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
Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !
— Benjamin Franklin
The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.
— Clement Of Alexandria
Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.
— John Tillotson
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
— Vance Havner
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
— Albert Einstein
Well, for me, gratuitous abstinence is just as bad as gratuitous sex.
— Bianca Sommerland
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
— Guy De Maupassant
Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hungernot abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.
— Lance Morrow
Sometimes being around children was the perfect abstinence program.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
If you own pornography of any kind, for the love of your future spouse, trash it immediately.
— Jason Evert
The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.
— Wilhelm Reich
Anna used to be the abstinence poster girl, but you could write a comic book about the many adventures of her vagina. It could wear a cape.
— Michelle Hodkin
The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.
— Akiva Ben Joseph
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
— Samuel Johnson
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
— Frances E. Willard
Sex is essentially deep. We become what we do with our bodies, and there is no deeper act than sex.
— Dietrich Von Hildebrand
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
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position.
— Richard Dawkins
It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.
— Benedict Of Nursia
If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals.
— Leo Tolstoy
I would like to outlaw contraception ... contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure.
— Joseph Scheidler
I'm not convinced that abstinence-only education works.
— Barbara Delinsky
Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.
— Mason Cooley