ABSTINENCE QUOTES III

quotations about abstinence

I never stole a thing, a toy or a kiss
My conscience is a clear as can be
And when I was a teen, all the sex that I missed
Was an abstinence blessing to me

ALICE COOPER

"It's Much Too Late"


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

ROBERT HERRICK

Abstinence


Refrain tonight,
And that shall lend a kind of easiness
To the next abstinence: the next more easy;
For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Hamlet


Refin'd himself to Soul, to curb the Sense;
And made almost a Sin of Abstinence.

JOHN DRYDEN

The Character of a Good Parson


I have heard that, with some persons, temperance -- that is, moderation -- is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater.

ANNE BRONTË

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall


Abstinence is perfectly reasonable in theory ... it just doesn't work in practice. It's like dieting. You can go a day or two, maybe even a week. But eventually that pizza just smells too good.

TOM PERROTTA

The Abstinence Teacher


Abstinence from low pleasures is the only means of meriting or of obtaining the higher.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations


Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

AMBROSE BIERCE

The Devil's Dictionary


Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from anything which he may lawfully take.

THOMAS ELYOT

The Governour


The great sexual energy that one has on abstinence can be transformed into art, poetry, dance, and inventions.

GIRDHAR JOSHI

Some Mistakes Have No Pardon


Abstinence is the best remedy for those diseases arising from gluttony.

GALEN

attributed, Day's Collacon


Having eaten a little yesterday, I am sensibly better to-day, for abstinence makes me ill for the present, whatever its ultimate effects may be.

HUGH SWINTON LEGARÉ

Diary of Brussels