Abstinence Only Quotes
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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 only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
— William Temple
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
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
Abstinence is approved of God.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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
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
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'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.
— Joycelyn Elders
I'm not convinced that abstinence-only education works.
— Barbara Delinsky
The only way to ensure completely safe sex with a 40-foot long, 6-ton predator is abstinence.
— Carrie Sessarego
To preach abstinence, I think, is absolutely not the right message to give to kids.
— Molly Ringwald
I would like to outlaw contraception ... contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure.
— Joseph Scheidler
If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals.
— Leo Tolstoy
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
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
Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hungernot abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Sex is essentially deep. We become what we do with our bodies, and there is no deeper act than sex.
— Dietrich Von Hildebrand
Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.
— Mason Cooley
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
— Vance Havner
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
— Samuel Johnson
If you own pornography of any kind, for the love of your future spouse, trash it immediately.
— Jason Evert
Sometimes being around children was the perfect abstinence program.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.
— Lance Morrow
Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !
— Benjamin Franklin
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
— Guy De Maupassant
Well, for me, gratuitous abstinence is just as bad as gratuitous sex.
— Bianca Sommerland
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
— Albert Einstein
No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.
— William Gilmore Simms
When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.
— Tom Perrotta
Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.
— John Tillotson
