Quotes and Sayings about Abstinence
"To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Abstinence, Moderation)
"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Abstinence, Moderation)
"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
(Related: Abstinence, Vices, World)
"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."
- Giacomo Casanova
(Related: Food, Health, Abstinence, Excess)
"There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people."
- Hillary Clinton
(Related: Education, People, Policy, Abstinence, Pressure, Support, Talk, Will)
"A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty."
- Henry Home
(Related: Abstinence, Body, Exercise, Man, Mind, Poverty, Sound)
"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
(Related: Peace, Abstinence, America, Order, Present, Will)
"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
(Related: Abstinence, Being, Prevention)
"The evidence does not support abstinence-only interventions as the best way to keep young people from unintended pregnancy."
- Jonathan Klein
(Related: People, Abstinence, Pregnancy, Support)
"The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest."
- Wilhelm Reich
(Related: Abstinence, Interest, Poems)
"Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason."
- Robert South
(Related: Abstinence, Reason)
"Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards."
- Ali ibn Abi Talib
(Related: Abstinence, Help)
"The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor."
- William Temple
(Related: Abstinence, Exercise, Man, Poor)
"Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy."
- Voltaire
(Related: Abstinence, Abuse, Excess, Man)
"Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul."
- Frances E. Willard
(Related: Abstinence, Moderation, Temperance)