Quotes About Abstinence

I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.

On Jan. 1, 2012, I resolved to not buy anything from Amazon for a year.

I'd be rich if I didn't drink.

I pride myself on taking care of my body. I make some sacrifices. I might not go out as much as everybody else or I might not... I don't drink.

Listen, one doesn't need to be religious (nor a rocket scientist) to see the value of abstinence.

I don't go out partying at all.

Straight edge means I'm drug free, alcohol free, and better than you.

It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka.

We abstained from having sex until we got married.

Everyone knows me and my wife's story. We didn't have sex until we got married.

I don't drink beer, and I don't drink at home.

I've never been drunk. I've never even had a beer.

As an obedient Saint, he had already pledged not to drink, smoke, take illegal drugs, ingest caffeine, masturbate, or engage in premarital sex.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane. Hitler was the archetype of the abstemious man.

Turn away, if you can. Return you will with hunger peaked and primed.

This is another aspect of nik??, the obligation to satisfy one's spouse. Nik?? and unconsummated marriage are mutually exclusive. Abstinence of a hundred and twenty days is a maximum not to be exceeded in any circumstances.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

Abstain from beans.

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.

I want to wait to have sex until I'm married.

I don't know if you can be a born-again virgin.

I didn't drink in high school, and neither did any of my boyfriends.

I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.

I had learnt the satisfaction which comes from hardship and the pleasure which derives from abstinence; the contentment of a full belly; the richness of meat; the taste of clean water; the ecstasy of surrender when the craving of sleep becomes a torment; the warmth of a fire in the chill of dawn.