Abstinence Quotes
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. (Quote by - Dickens Charles)
With renunciation life begins. (Quote by - Amelia E. Barr)
Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. (Quote by - Day, Dorothy)
Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket. (Quote by - Horace Greeley)
A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty. (Quote by - Henry Home)
The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God. (Quote by - Horace)
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. (Quote by - Horace Greeley)
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total ABSTINENCE. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Abstinence makes the heart gro fonder. (Quote by - Author Unknown)
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason. (Quote by - Bishop Robert South)
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Abstinence is easier than temperance. (Quote by - Seneca)
Do not overdo what has already been overdone. (Quote by - Terence)
It is impossible to overdo luxury. (Quote by - French Proverb)
Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards. (Quote by - Ali ibn Abi Talib)
I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day. (Quote by - Dean Martin)
Self denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Every egg represents 32 hours of jail for a chicken kept in a 3 ft by 1 ft cage, debeaked. (Quote by - Art Margolis)
I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physicianexcept myself. (Quote by - Giacomo Casanova)
Meat produced under current factory farming conditions (which transgress Jewish prohibitions against cruelty to animals) render the eating of such meat, halachically unacceptable (i.e. unacceptable in terms of Jewish law.) (Quote by - Rabbi David Rosen)
Never add artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice until thou findest that time hath decayed thy natural heat. (Quote by - Sir Walter Raleigh)
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of ABSTINENCE, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. (Quote by - Vance Havner)
Abstinence is the surety of temperance. (Quote by - Plato)
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. (Quote by - Frances E. Willard)
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.(Quote by - Augustine St)
Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast. (Quote by - Francis Quarles)
Excess in all other Things whatever, as well as in Meat and Drink, is also to be avoided. (Quote by - Benjamin Frankli)
If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food. (Quote by - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy)
Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason. (Quote by - Jean)
Abstinence for me is about romance. It has nothing to do with my relationship with God. It's definitely a bonus in that department, but it's nothing spiritual. It's about giving something special to that person you're going to spend the rest of your life with. (Quote by - Jessica Simpson)
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
The absence of all false austerity and outward show of abnormal abstinence in His life furnished an imagined excuse for unfounded charges of excess, through which He was said to be a glutton and a winebibber.(Quote by - Talmage James)
Refined himself to soul, to curb the sense And made almost a sin of abstinence. Refined himself to soul, to curb the sense And made almost a sin of abstinence. (Quote by - Dryden,John)
I didn`t practice abstinence, I perfected it. (Quote by - Dennis Wolfberg)
We all know there is blood in meat (USDA hearings in Senate Ag committee). (Quote by - Charles Grassley)
Abstinence is approved of God. (Quote by - Geoffrey Chaucer)
Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use ABSTINENCE. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. (Quote by - St Augustine)
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
We read of a fountain in Arabia upon whose basin is inscribed, "Drink, and away;" but how delicious is that hasty draught, and how long and brightly the thought of its transient refreshment dwells in the memory. (Quote by - Henry Theodore Tuckerman)
To illustrate, I knew a man who was a member of the Church but had returned to his habit of smoking cigarettes, He said he didn't want to smoke but just couldn't help it, Of course, he could have overcome the habit if he had really wanted to while he had his body to help him. If the spirit tells the body not to pick up the cigarette, the body won't pick it up, and abstinence over time allows the spirit to overcome the desire. This man finally suffered a stroke. His body was paralyzed with the exception of his right arm and his eyes. As his son-in-law picked him up from the porch of his house, where he had fallen, with the only arm this man could move, he reached for the cigarette in his son-in-law's mouth, but he could not hold onto it. His son-in-law held the lighted cigarette to the stricken man's lips, but in his condition he could not hold it in his mouth. (Quote by - Rector Hartman)
Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one. (Quote by - William Penn)
To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. (Quote by - Josh Jenkins)
His life is parallel'd E'en with the stroke and line of his great justice; He doth with holy abstinence subdue That in himself which he spurs on his power To qualify in others. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. (Quote by - William Temple)
Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. (Quote by - Danish Proverb)
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing. (Quote by - David Letterman)
It is difficult to talk and to do yogic breathing exercises at the same time. Kissing, talking, eating, breathing.. must drive carefully in each others' corridors. (Quote by - O Anna Niemus)
My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, ABSTINENCE from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health. (Quote by - Robert E. Lee)
We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force: God therefore let him free, set before him a provoking object, ever almost in his eyes; herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence. (Quote by - Milton,John)
Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Abstinence is a perversion. (Quote by - Bill Maher)
There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people. (Quote by - Wilhelm Reich)
Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion. (Quote by - John Tillotson)
By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Multi quidem facilius se abstinent ut non utantur, quam temperent ut bene utantur. For many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. (Quote by - St Augustine)
An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction. (Quote by - Taylor Jeremy )
Why have a cake if I can`t eat it? (Quote by - Vanna Bonta)
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. (Quote by - W C Fields)
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the ground-work of virtue. By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigour to resolution, and secure the power of resistance when pleasure or interest shall lend their charms to guilt. (Quote by - Johnson)
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. (Quote by - Barney, Natalie Clifford)
