Quotes About Abstinence

Live like no else today, so you can live like no else tomorrow.

You see, if you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.

Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney.

Lent survives as a much moderated version of this self-imposed discomfort.

The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

No, I never drink beer. I've never had a pint of lager in my life.

I'm totally off any caffeine now.

Sometimes I think, 'Maybe I could have a drink or two.' But then I think about it, and I just don't want to. It's just not in the cards. I know what I feel like now that I don't drink. I know what it feels like not to be hungover, trying to put my legs on.

I stay away from alcohol and cigarettes, as I am a tee-totaller.

From the late eighteenth century onwards, it is no longer from the practice of community but from being a wanderer that the instinct of fellow-feeling is derived. Thus an essential isolation and silence and loneliness become the carriers of nature and community against the rigours, the cold abstinence, the selfish ease of ordinary society.

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.

You preach to me constantly the gospel of 'saving' and 'abstinence'. Good! I will, like a sensible saving owner, husband my sole wealth, labour-power, and abstain from all foolish waste of it.

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.

No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.

A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.

What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.

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.

Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.

You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.

James, the brother of the Lord ... was holy from his mother's womb; and he drank no wine nor strong drink, nor did he eat meat.

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

All philosophy lies in two words sustain and abstain.

Forget to smoke and drink alcohol. Start drinking the morning sunshine, pure breeze, and unconditional love. It is a much better way to get drunk.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.