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Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason. -- Robert South
Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex. -- Kurt Angle
Abstinence is approved of God. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
Abstinence is easier than temperance. -- Seneca the Younger
Abstinence is the surety of temperance. -- Plato
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult. -- Samuel Johnson
Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence. -- Robert Herrick
Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic. -- Ashley Judd
He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. -- Herbert Kalmus
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. -- Saint Augustine
The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest. -- Wilhelm Reich
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. -- Frances E. Willard
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. -- William Temple
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence. -- Samuel Butler
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted. -- Thomas Jefferson
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. -- Giacomo Casanova
Abstinence is a perversion -- Bill Maher
Abstinence is a perversion. -- Bill Maher
Abstinence is easier than temperance -- Seneca
Abstinence is the surety of temperance -- Plato
Abstinence. It didn't even sound comfortable. -- Stephanie Laurens
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion. -- Guy de Maupassant
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly. -- Charles Dickens
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. -- Epictetus
Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position. -- Richard Dawkins
Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion. -- John Tillotson
Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult -- Samuel Johnson
The fact is, there's no such thing as "The Age of Abstinence." -- Lizz Winstead
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. -- Voltaire
Abstinence works, I know it from my own personal life, abstinence works. -- Rick Perry
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. -- W. C. Fields
By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution. -- Samuel Johnson
If you own pornography of any kind, for the love of your future spouse, trash it immediately. -- Jason Evert
Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate. -- Lance Morrow
Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised. -- Rachel Maddow
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. -- Albert Einstein
When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture. -- Tom Perrotta
Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there. -- William Blake
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue. -- Samuel Johnson
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. -- Joel Siegel
Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence. -- George MacDonald
I have a deal with HBO to develop television, and I am also developing a movie called 'The Abstinence Teacher,' which is based on a book by Tom Perrotta. -- Lisa Cholodenko
Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage. -- Thucydides
Most cultures traditionally link food and spirituality directly with periodic restrictions and celebrations punctuating the year. Abstinence from particular foods or full-on fasting is part of many religious traditions and holidays. -- Marcus Samuelsson
Abstinence for me is about romance. It has nothing to do with my relationship with God. It's definitely a bonus in that department, but it's nothing spiritual. It's about giving something special to that person you're going to spend the rest of your life with. -- Jessica Simpson
The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone. -- Boyd K. Packer
I didn't practice abstinence, I perfected it -- Dennis Wolfberg
Why have a cake if I can't eat it? -- Vanna Bonta
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. -- Saint Augustine
Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. -- Voltaire
If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food -- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants. -- Dick Cavett
A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty. -- Henry Home
The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence. -- Akiva ben Joseph
I'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold - why do a vampire story about abstinence? -- Alan Ball
Well, I think that abstinence has its place as part of a comprehensive health and sex education curriculum. It would be wrong to exclude abstinence from a health curriculum, because there are some potentially very serious ramifications for early sexual activity. -- Kerry Healey
Whether sexual orientation can change or not, hearts can change and turn any sexual orientation into an occasion for the glory of Christ. Those with same-sex attraction glorify Christ through sexual abstinence and through the enrichment of significant Christ-exalting relationships in other ways. -- John Piper
The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave. -- Rick Santorum
I'm not convinced that abstinence-only education works. -- Barbara Delinsky
Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective. -- Bill Nye
Atheism is a religion the way abstinence is a sex position. -- Bill Maher
I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse. -- Joycelyn Elders
While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence. -- Isuna Hasekura
To preach abstinence, I think, is absolutely not the right message to give to kids. -- Molly Ringwald
It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted. -- Aristippus
I think I'm an abstinence symbol. If I take my shirt off, people will not have babies. -- Jesse Eisenberg
Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms. -- Joycelyn Elders
Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution. -- Aldo Leopold
The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price. -- Cecile Richards
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. -- Vance Havner
the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it. -- Rebecca West
Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now! -- Anton Szandor LaVey
A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it. -- Oscar Wilde
[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice ... -- Queen Victoria
No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society. -- William Gilmore Simms
Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
achieving true sobriety goes beyond abstinence. it's also about healing your soul, apologizing for damage you did to other, and seeking forgiveness. -- Lou Gramm
It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul. -- Benedict of Nursia
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity. -- Seneca the Younger
The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe. -- Clement of Alexandria
A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty. -- Henry Home
Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. -- Samuel Johnson
When you're dating, abstinence is a greater expression of love than making love, because you're doing what's best for your beloved, not just what feels good in the moment. -- Jason Evert
A new study found that students who are taught abstinence end up with better math scores. Of course, if you join the math team, the abstinence takes care of itself. -- Jimmy Fallon
When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious. -- Clive James
Sexual activity, and the thoughts and fantasies of sex, use up a great portion of our vital force. When that force is conserved through abstinence, it becomes sublimated as spiritual energy. -- Patanjali
My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health. -- Robert E. Lee
The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed. -- Alan Ball
Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence." -- C. S. Lewis
There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people. -- Hillary Clinton

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