quotes about Abstinence
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If you can control yourself sexually, you can control yourself. Period.
-- A. C. GreenSource : A. C. Green, Joann Cole Webster (1994). “Victory”
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Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.
-- Aristippus -
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Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ?
-- Benny Hill -
If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.
-- Catherine Breillat -
Sex is essentially deep. We become what we do with our bodies, and there is no deeper act than sex.
-- Dietrich von Hildebrand -
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
-- Frances E. Willard -
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Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.
-- Francis QuarlesSource : Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridion: Containing Institutions--divine: Contemplative, Practical; Moral: Ethical, Ĺ’conomical, Political”, p.112
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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 -
I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience, myadventures in homosexuality took place largely in the1960s and '70s, and back then I relied on time and abstinence to indicate my degree of freedom from infectionand to protect others and myself.
-- Harold BrodkeySource : 1996 This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death.
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The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.
-- Horace -
While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence.
-- Isuna HasekuraSource : Isuna Hasekura (2016). “Spice and Wolf, Vol. 1 (light novel)”, p.70, Hachette UK
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Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.
-- J. William Schickel -
If your heart says, "Maybe I shouldn't be doing this," listen to your heart, pray for strength, and get out of the situation immediately.
-- Jason Evert -
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If you own ***** of any kind, for the love of your future spouse, trash it immediately.
-- Jason Evert -
Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.
-- John Tillotson -
Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person.
-- Josef Pieper -
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I would like to outlaw contraception... contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure.
-- Joseph Scheidler -
Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.
-- Joycelyn Elders -
Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.
-- Lance Morrow -
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 -
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Sexual intercourse is a gift that says, "Do not open until marriage." If you've already unwrapped it, wrap it up again!
-- Molly KellySource : "Sex, Love, and You: Making the Right Decision". Book by Judy Lickona, Thomas Lickona, and William Boudreau, 1994.
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Our main reproductive organ is our brain.
-- Molly KellySource : Molly Kelly (1997). “Saved Sex: Chastity-- Because You're Worth It”
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Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
-- Robert South -
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
-- Samuel Johnson -
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Abstinence. It didn't even sound comfortable.
-- Stephanie Laurens -
The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.
-- Wilhelm Reich