Top 128 Abstinence Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

Listen, one doesn't need to be religious (nor a rocket scientist) to see the value of abstinence.

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

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.

I think I'm an abstinence symbol. If I take my shirt off, people will not have babies.

Abstinence. It didn't even sound comfortable.

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.

Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.

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

The fact is, there's no such thing as "The Age of Abstinence."

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.

Atheism is a religion the way abstinence is a sex position.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Abstinence is approved of God.

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.

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

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.

Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.

Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

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.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

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

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

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

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

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

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

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

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

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.

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.

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.

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

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.

To preach abstinence, I think, is absolutely not the right message to give to kids.

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

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.

Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position.

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.

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

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

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

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

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

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.