Quotes About Abstinence

If you think you can stand looking and not touching for eight months, you're welcome to try.""Try' being the operative word, " he said, sighing. "No, I can't. And I don't want to try.

I'm not unlucky at love, just incredibly lucky with celibacy.

A man cannot live without water. He cannot live without it, but he can bear the thought of no water. A man can live without sex. He can live without it, but he cannot bear the thought of no sex.

INTEMPERANCE.

Intemperance. The most damaging forms of intemperance are connected with eating, strong drink, and sexual activities. Overindulgence in any of these is fatal to success.

If I was not allowed to mention that I was in the film industry, I could go six months without getting a kiss.

it's easier to refrain from sexual activity altogether than to maintain a harmonious sexual relationship.

Cultivate the art of renunciation.

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.

How can I free myself from sexuality? Eat nothing but rice?

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.

It's been over a year since I've had sex.

He doesn't drink." "Your boss," said Michael, "is a dangerous alien.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.

I am only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.

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

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses, though he be not drunk.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

He was keeping his pants zipped, which actually wasn't as hard as it seemed, even after he'd gone for well over nine months without getting laid.

To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

Gluttony is one of the lowest and most animal vices, and is obnoxious to all who pursue a moderate course.

It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.

Of course, to have admitted that you hated football while you were working on STEAMING would have been a bit like one of the US president's staffers confessing to thinking religion was overrated, abstinence didn't work, and what the country really needed was a short sharp dose of communism with a side order of Islamic extremism to go.