Quotes About Abstinence

The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.

I haven't eaten junk food since I was 11, but I'm not teetotal: I have a drink maybe once a month.

Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion.

Abstinence is perfectly reasonable in theory, Gregory said, It just doesn't work in practice. It's like dieting. You can go a day or two, maybe even a week. But eventually that pizza just smells too good.

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid.

Fasting strengthens control over our appetites, thus contributing to self-mastery.

The lips that touch liquor must never touch mine!

I didn't fight the desire to drink anymore; I just did not drink.

Dine on little, and sup on less.

Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

Kažu da nije znao šta je žensko tijelo ni plotsko uživanje uopšte. Nikada nije okusio nikakva opojnog pi?a, ni fildžan kafe, ni dim duvana. Ali nije osu?ivao one koji se služe svim tim božjim darovima za ovoga kratkoga života.

John-who-wasn't-gonna-get-none

He liked to keep them hungry, so they were fed every other day.

I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel.

I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel. "Pretty girls make graves

The diet is a twisted, noxious thing, all tortured abstinence and short-term fraud. I speak from bitter experience. As a restaurant critic, I eat to live and live to eat. And having a toxic aversion to exercise, there is little to prevent the inevitable bulging of my gut. Hence the need for the occasional diet.

Were we more careful to obey the part of the word of wisdom that deals with the "do's" it might be easier to obey the "don'ts"

The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.

Um dia, ele disse ao pequeno Marco que a semente da uva era a profecia da vinha, das próprias uvas, e finalmente do vinho que daria prazer e alívio à alma, inspirando-a com uma sabedoria além da que podería conhecer um homem abstêmio e sóbrio.

Sexual intercourse is a gift that says, "Do not open until marriage." If you've already unwrapped it, wrap it up again!