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Abstain from animals. -- Pythagoras
Abstain from reading comedy or other government economic statistics. -- Jarod Kintz
Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body. -- Laura Joh Rowland
Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are? -- John Green
Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones -- Gautama Buddha
Christ sayeth not, Abstain from the flesh, from marrying, from housekeeping, etc., as the Papists teach, for that were even to invite the devil and all his fellows to a feast. -- Martin Luther
Abstain from beans. There be sundry interpretations of this symbol. But Plutarch and Cicero think beans to be forbidden of Pythagoras, because they be windy and do engender impure humours and for that cause provoke bodily lust. -- Richard Taverner
When you doubt, abstain. -- Ambrose Bierce
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. -- Epictetus
I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat. -- Nikola Tesla
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains. -- Francois Rabelais
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. -- George Eliot
I'm pro-responsible choice. There is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kind of good choices. -- Sharron Angle
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. -- Saint Augustine
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. -- Ambrose Bierce
Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain. -- Michael Douglas
I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices. -- Sharron Angle
Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act. -- Abraham Cahan
I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do. -- Elaine Stritch
Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol. -- Carre Otis
I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity. -- John Nelson Darby
If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power. -- Elliot Richardson
In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will. -- Boris Pasternak
All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. -- James F. Cooper
It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain. -- Amos Oz
Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When you are in doubt abstain. -- Zoroaster
To abstain from lying is essentially wholesome. -- Gautama Buddha
I know not how to abstain from reading. -- Samuel Pepys
In doubt if an action is just, abstain. -- Zoroaster
We have the power to abstain from destructive behavior. -- Sylvia Earle
You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude. -- Simone de Beauvoir
I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether. -- Leo Tolstoy
I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it. -- Winston Churchill
To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious. -- Joseph Addison
The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it. -- George Meredith
The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The only way to really have safe sex is to abstain. From drinking. -- Wendy Liebman
When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it. -- Zoroaster
We live only to dance. If living were not an essential prerequisite, we would abstain. -- Toni Bentley
Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions. -- Aristotle
It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness. -- Saint John Chrysostom
To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims. -- Ayn Rand
Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick. -- Josh Billings
Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire. -- Plato
I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings,and I abstain from it whenever I can. -- Albert Schweitzer
I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices -- Sharron Angle
To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain~? -- George Bernard Shaw
The more princes abstain from touching the wealth of their people, the greater will be their resources in the wants of the state. -- Pulcheria
We urge President Bush to abstain from the National Missile Defense, just as we urge China, India and Pakistan to discontinue their nuclear arsenals. -- Anna Lindh
Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food -- Henry David Thoreau
As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer. -- Abraham Lincoln
To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will. -- Nassau William Senior
And while I initially resisted, the thought of touching her, of her wanting me to touch her . . . Well, damn, I just wasn't strong enough to abstain from that. -- Robin Constantine
All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites. -- Mario Bunge
I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words toward anyone, for neither diminishes the strength of the enemy. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. -- Hippocrates
We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to observe a wise and masterly inactivity. -- John Randolph of Roanoke
Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain. -- Timothy Leary
It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke. -- Jeremy Taylor
The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government. -- William Henry Harrison
The despairing are always being urged to abstain from selfishness, to think of others first. This seems unfair. Why load them with responsibility for the welfare of others, when their own already weighs them down?" -- Julian Barnes

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