Quotes About Abstinence

If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

I'm not a real big wine drinker. I enjoy wine from a distance.

I don't drink at all. If I'm out I'll have the occasional sip of wine just to be sociable.

Drinking isn't tops on my agenda. In fact, I hate champagne... and all white wines, for that matter.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

Why do they even call it that, "saving yourself"? Like we need to be rescued from sex? It's not like virgins spend their whole lives engaged in the sacred ceremony of "being saved" from intercourse.

I tell ya one thing about me. I say "No" to drugs. When people ask me for some of my drugs, I say "No.

The "captain" says that when I came to engage passage in the Quaker City I "seemed to be full of whiskey, or something," and filled his office with the "fumes of bad whiskey" . . . [F]or a ceaseless, tireless, forty-year public advocate of total abstinence the "captain" is a mighty good judge of whiskey at second-hand.28

What is required of us is restraint and humility.

Under the influence of Christian notions of the sinfulness of sex outside of marriage, the U.S. government has required that one-third of its AIDS prevention funds allocated to Africa be squandered on teaching abstinence rather than condom use. It is no exaggeration to say that millions could die as a direct result of this single efflorescence of religious dogmatism.

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

And the faces of them, which have used abstinence, shall shine above the stars; whereas our faces shall be blacker than darkness.Bible2 Esdras,vii. 55.

Betsy hadn't had sex, actual; sex-sex, full sex, in two hundred and fifty-three days. She decided on her thirty-seventh birthday that she wouldn't sleep with anyone unless it was in the context of a committed relationship which had some sort of future, and she was only gradually coming to the realization of what happens when a woman her age makes a decision like that: she never has sex again.

The only way to save money is not to spend it.

Therefore, we are today far from wrong in applying this prophecy to the papists, who urge celibacy and abstinence from foods more forcefully than any precept of God. They

I've never been drunk in my life. I don't use recreational drugs.

Fasting may not be as easy as feasting, but after a while it is not too different. Both are extremes. It is not hard to go the extreme way, but what is really difficult is neither to fast nor to feast, but to be moderate in everything we do.

A person who does think of his brain can't drink liquor or wine, feels often pain in life and remains away from women.

I've had no shellfish and no pork for quite some time.

Wherever the religious neurosis has appeared on the earth so far, we find it connected with three dangerous prescriptions as to regimen: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence

And of course it has nothing to do with the fact that I haven't been with a women since I came to your bed back in February-Devlin.

FROM my grandfather Verus I learned good morals and the government of my temper.  From the reputation and remembrance of my father, modesty and a manly character. From my mother, piety and beneficence, and abstinence, not only from evil deeds, but even from evil thoughts; and further, simplicity in my way of living, far removed from the habits of the rich. From