ABSTINENCE QUOTES III

quotations about abstinence

Your forest needs fire
Your abstinence needs desire
Your rubber neck needs barbed wire

THE GHOST

"Banished and Loving It"


Refrain tonight,
And that shall lend a kind of easiness
To the next abstinence: the next more easy;
For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Hamlet


Against diseases here the strongest fence
Is the defensive virtue, abstinence.

ROBERT HERRICK

Abstinence


Refin'd himself to Soul, to curb the Sense;
And made almost a Sin of Abstinence.

JOHN DRYDEN

The Character of a Good Parson


Abstinence from low pleasures is the only means of meriting or of obtaining the higher.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations


I have heard that, with some persons, temperance -- that is, moderation -- is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater.

ANNE BRONTË

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall


Abstinence is perfectly reasonable in theory ... it just doesn't work in practice. It's like dieting. You can go a day or two, maybe even a week. But eventually that pizza just smells too good.

TOM PERROTTA

The Abstinence Teacher


Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

AMBROSE BIERCE

The Devil's Dictionary


Abstinence is the best remedy for those diseases arising from gluttony.

GALEN

attributed, Day's Collacon


The great sexual energy that one has on abstinence can be transformed into art, poetry, dance, and inventions.

GIRDHAR JOSHI

Some Mistakes Have No Pardon


Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from anything which he may lawfully take.

THOMAS ELYOT

The Governour


Having eaten a little yesterday, I am sensibly better to-day, for abstinence makes me ill for the present, whatever its ultimate effects may be.

HUGH SWINTON LEGARÉ

Diary of Brussels