Quotes about Abstinence
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
- St. Augustine
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
- St. Augustine
So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.
- St. Augustine
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
- St. Jerome
Mrs. Hackit declines cream; she has so long abstained from it with an eye to the weekly butter-money, that abstinence, wedded to habit, has begotten aversion.
- George Eliot
Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
- St. Augustine
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
- Saint Jerome
Its 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
Praising the lean and sallow abstinence.
- John Milton
I ate so many Ramen noodles that I wouldn't even touch a package of them now.
- Jeremy Camp
I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
- Billy Sunday
it's the paternal instinct, Amory—celibacy goes deeper than the flesh. . . .
- F Scott Fitzgerald