Quotes About Abstinence

Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

Austerity, if I were to define, I'll say, It's YOU.

Marjani has never had a sip of alcohol in her life, but she stinks of beer like a Supreme Court justice in college when she comes back to check on me Saturday nights.

Abstinence sows sand all overThe ruddy limbs and flaming hair,But Desire gratifiedPlants fruits of life and beauty there.

The whole art of training consists in two things, exercise and abstinence, abstinence and exercise, repeated alternately without end.

Celibacy,fasting, penance, mortification, self-denial, humility, silence, solitude and the whole train of monkish virtues...Stupify the understanding and harden the heart, obscure the fancy and sour the temper...A gloomy hair-brained enthusiast, after his death, may have a place in the calendar, but will scarcely ever be admitted, when alive, into intimacy and society, except by those who are as delerious and dismal as himself.

Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.

We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.

What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Abstinence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

Restraint never ruins one's health.

Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more.

Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

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

Celibacy sucks, no pun intended.

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger.

In past lives these folks were trained to repress their feelings, instincts, sexual urges, and enjoyment of the physical senses. Abstinence and discipline were foremost, and deprivation of the joys of being human was rewarded with respect and promotion. In this incarnation they still tend to put up a wall between themselves and easy, earthy interaction with others. They are accustomed to postponing the pleasure of life, and often postponement leads to permanent denial.

Oh hell," Ida Belle said. "God doesn't care about drinking beer. All those rules were made up by people trying to prevent you from doing something really wrong. Drunks make stupid decisions. If you don't drink, there's less chance of doing something stupid.

Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.