A Quote by Joycelyn Elders

I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.

Joycelyn Elders

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Joycelyn Elders
American - Public Servant
Born: August 13, 1933

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

The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price.

Cecile Richards

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

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

Abstinence works, I know it from my own personal life, abstinence works.

Rick Perry

Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Voltaire

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Voltaire

Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one night. And they do say that abstinence makes the heart grow firmer, no?" "Absence," I said, dodging the spoon for a moment. "AND fonder. If anything's growing firmer from abstinence, it wouldn't be his heart.

Diana Gabaldon

Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.

Robert Herrick

I'm not convinced that abstinence-only education works.

Barbara Delinsky

If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the things of earth; if we find that things which others can do with impunity are for us the occasion of falling, then abstinence is our only course. Abstinence alone can recover for us the real value of what should have been for our help but which has been an occasion of falling. ... It is necessary that we should steadily resolve to give up anything that comes between ourselves and God.

William Ralph Inge

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

William Temple

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

Isuna Hasekura

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.

Tom Perrotta

I'm against suing tobacco companies. I think abstinence is a perversion. I think Bush's lies are worse than Clinton's. I think Vegas was better when it was run by the mob. I think men are only as loyal as their options. I think stereotypes are true and rehab is for quitters.