Quotes About Abstinence

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.  ~ Robert South


All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.  ~ Epictetus


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


Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.  ~ Horace Greeley


Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.  ~ Charles Dickens


Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.  ~ Saint Augustine


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


Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.  ~ Ali ibn Abi Talib


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


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


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


Abstinence is the surety of temperance.  ~ Plato


All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.  ~ Epictetus


Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.  ~ Samuel Johnson


I didn't practice abstinence, I perfected it.  ~ Dennis Wolfberg


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