Quotes About Abstinence

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

The secular, for all its goodness, does not defend itself very well against mindless and perpetual consumption. It cries out to be offered by abstinence as well as use; to be appreciated, not simply absorbed. Hunger remains the best sauce.

Against diseases here the strongest fence Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.

Her abstinence from her recollections had been a matter of survival.

Weren't you wearing a purity ring when we got here? Aren't you supposed to be saving yourself? Shanti asked. Yeah, Mary Lou answered. And then I thought, for what? You save leftovers. My sex is not a leftover, and it is not a Christmas present.

One gains more from a fast than a feast.

Fornication deprives a person of his spiritual covering.

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

Let the smokers and the gluttons die... and leave the living to us who know how to use it.

To the puritan all things are impure

No more Oreo's!

NO, I will not accept straight edge into my life!

Drugs are horrible; I say no to drugs. I've never done drugs in my life.

I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.

The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.)

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

Believing that each step of my life would mean contact with the horror of the New and that each new person I met was a new and living fragment of the unknown to be placed before me on the table for my daily horrified contemplation, I decided to abstain from everything, to go nowhere, to reduce action to the minimum, to avoid as far as possible meeting either men or events, to perfect abstinence and cultivate renunciation. That's how much living frightens and torments me.

I decided to abstain from everything, to go forward in nothing, to reduce action to a minimum, to make it hard for people and events to find me, to perfect the art of abstinence, and to take abdication to unprecedented heights.

Let's not even touch life with the tips of our fingers. Let's not even love in our minds. May we never know the feel of a woman's kiss, not even in our dreams.

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

We are for abstinence, not prohibition. Prohibition leads to many socio-legal problems. Wherever liquor has been prohibited, there is a tendency to consume through illegal means.

I sail and play tennis, and I don't smoke or drink caffeine.