The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.
Tea's 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.
Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.
Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.
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.
Our main reproductive organ is our brain.
The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
I would like to outlaw contraception. . . contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure.
No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.
Abstinence is approved of God.
Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!
Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.
Idiots must stop claiming that atheism is a religion. Religion is defined as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power. And atheism is… precisely not that. Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position
Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ?
Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.
A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.
Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.