Abstinence Quotes - Page 2

• Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.

  Kurt Angle

  Sex, Hero, Wrestling

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

  William Temple

  Health, Exercise, Men

  Sir William Temple (1720). “The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart. ...: Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs. The third part. From the peace concluded 1679, to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs ... from ... 1672, to 1679”, p.305

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• 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

  Peace, War, Order

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.163, Algora Publishing

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• Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

  Charles Dickens

  Sorrow, Remains, Renunciation

  "The Mill on the Floss". Book by Charles Dickens, 1860.

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• 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

  Vices, Use, Half

  Samuel Butler (2012). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.239, Courier Corporation

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• You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dog, Atheist, Fear

  1932 Texts and Pretexts,'Amor Fati'.

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• 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

  Christmas, Men, Principles

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• Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.

  Bill Nye

  Has Beens, Insisting

  "One Of The Most Thoughtful Videos About The Right To Choose That I’ve Seen Yet" by Brandon A. Weber, bigthink.com. 2016.

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• Abstinence is easier than temperance.

  Seneca the Younger

  Easier, Temper, Temperance

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• Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

  Robert South

  Reason

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• Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Joy, Sorrow, Novelists

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.1744, Delphi Classics

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• No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Men, True Life, Solitude

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.89

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• The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Artistic, Interest, Drunkenness

  Wilhelm Reich (1969). “The sexual revolution: toward a self-governing character structure”

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• I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

  Vance Havner

  Order, Alcohol, Church

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• Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.

  Francis Quarles

  Vanity, Too Much, Enough

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridion: Containing Institutions--divine: Contemplative, Practical; Moral: Ethical, Œconomical, Political”, p.112

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• While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence.

  Isuna Hasekura

  May, Accomplished, Loses

  Isuna Hasekura (2016). “Spice and Wolf, Vol. 1 (light novel)”, p.70, Hachette UK

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• Abstinence is approved of God.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Approved

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• By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.

  Samuel Johnson

  Add, Vigor, Done

  Samuel Johnson (1799). “THE IDLER. BY SAMUEL JOHNSON, L.L.D. TWO VOLUMES IN ONE. WITH ADDITIONAL ESSAYS. To which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings OF THE AUTHOR”

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• Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

  Mark Twain

  Passion, Excellent, Abstaining

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Food, Cooking

  In William Roberts (ed.) 'Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs Hannah More' (1834) vol. 1, p. 251

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• Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Perfection, Reason, Abstaining

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• 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

  Team, Math, Care

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• Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.

  Thomas McEvilley

  Plato, Eye, Soul

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• It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.

  Aristippus

  Mastery, Pleasure

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• Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fear, Self, Shining

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