Quotes About Abstemious

I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

a modest and abstemious diet which favored pineapples, Brazil nuts, and Saturday dinners of salt cod.

I could see exactly what must have happened. Insert a liberal dose of mixed spirits in a normally abstemious man, and he becomes a force. He does not stand around, twiddling his fingers and stammering. He acts. I

Someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly.