Quotes About Abstinence

I'm not usually a drinker.

I could never afford to be in a position where I could do something stupid, so I gave up drinking.

I don't like drinking, basically.

I've not stopped drinking, I'm not a born again one of them, we just don't have booze in the house.

I spent a whole year in 'Spamalot' and didn't have one drop of alcohol.

I don't drink and haven't since I was younger so trying to remember what it feels like and act drunk was fun.

I am overfed, so when I am at home, I stop eating.

It is true that thrift was enjoined by Bushido, but not for economical reasons so much as for the exercise of abstinence

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.

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

Ethan: "Abstaining definitely doesn't work." Beth: "what do you suggest?" Ethan: "We're obviously going to have to make love often, but keep the encounters from getting too intense." He sounded perfectly serious, like he really believed what he was saying.

you know I don't drink! The route to ruin, that's what drink is. Haven't drunk for near twenty years, so don't think you can tempt me. But I'll pour you another before I says goodnight, if you care?' 'And send me on the route to ruin?' 'There's many a route to ruin, as it says in the Bible. We all have to find our own?

Would there be no end to publishing? he wondered. Perhaps it would be a good idea if everyone just stopped writing for a couple of years and allowed readers to catch up.

the priests said that food was not there to be enjoyed but simply to keep us alive. Simplicity of diet was important.

in those days I didn't drink, smoke, swear, or speak Italian.

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.

I have never been drunk in my life, and I don't expect I ever will be.

I'd love to see the world without liquor for a week.

I haven't had lunch for years.

I really don't need luxury.