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Quotes About Abstinence

Sweetheart, what gives you the idea that you're worth a half-year of celibacy?" "I may not be; you're the only one who can answer that.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Celibacy sucks, no pun intended.
~ Lois Greiman
Let's resume everything we gave up for Lent without any newfound spiritual insights.
~ Unknown
For Lent, I'm giving up making jokes about what I'm giving up for Lent.
~ Unknown
I'm going to give up TV for Lent except for all the programming I recorded before Lent.
~ Unknown
This Lent, I'm giving up making jokes about what I'm giving up.
~ Unknown
My employer is giving up paying me for Lent.
~ Unknown
I'm giving up Internet porn for Lent so I'll be needing a lot more actual sex.
~ Unknown
If you give up gossip for Lent, I'm going to spend 40 straight days talking sh.. about you.
~ Unknown
Let's give up our worst vices with the understanding that in about a month we'll indulge them with twice the fervor.
~ Unknown
Read in abudndance the Holy Quran. Abstain from food, drink and cohabitation. Maintain your nightly trips to Masjid for Taraweeh. Absolve yourself from Hellfire through seeking forgiveness. Deeds of good, never too many to have. Attempt to find and utilize the Night of Power in the odd nights of the last 10. Never return to the sins you have turned your back on in this month.
~ Unknown
As much as I would enjoy being drunk, I think I'd better pass after last night's episode and today's follow-up.
~ Unknown
Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
~ Unknown
Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy, I've done it a thousand times.
~ W. C. Fields
If everyone in Christendom ate nothing but fish on Friday, then the fishermen and their children would eat well the rest of the week.
~ Philippa Gregory
Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time, he said callously. Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one night. And they do say that abstinence makes the heart grow firmer, no? Absence, I said, dodging the spoon for a moment. AND fonder. If anything's growing firmer from abstinence, it wouldn't be his heart.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one night. And they do say that abstinence makes the heart grow firmer, no?" "Absence," I said, dodging the spoon for a moment. "And fonder. If anything's growing firmer from abstinence, it wouldn't be his heart.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I don't drink.
~ Ozuna
When I was a child, my parents didn't know anything about drugs. They didn't even drink.
~ David Sheff
I don't drink no more.
~ Adrien Broner
I don't drink. I don't do drugs.
~ Casper Van Dien
I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.
~ David Edwards
I'm not a huge drinker.
~ Steve Smith