List of Abstinence Quotes in Englsih with Images

With renunciation life begins.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

- Abstinence Quotes by Sir William Temple 1628 - 1699, British Diplomat, Essayist Download or Share

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

- Abstinence Quote by Epictetus 50 - 120, Stoic Philosopher Download or Share

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

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Abstinence is approved of God.

Geoffrey Chaucer Download or Share

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

Abstinence Sayings by Plato Download or Share

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

- Seneca The Younger Download or Share

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

- Abstinence Quotes by Samuel Johnson. Download or Share

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

- Horace Greeley 1811 - 1872, American Newspaper Editor Download or Share

Abstinence is a perversion.

- Bill Maher

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

- Horace Greeley

Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.

- Abstinence Sayings by Robert Herrick

Abstinence is what we list first.

- Jack Ellis

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

- Abstinence Quote by Natalie Clifford Barney 1876-1972, American-born French Author

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

- Abstinence Sayings by Augustine of Hippo

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

- Abstinence Sayings by Samuel Johnson

Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

-Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.

Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder for someone else.

Dennis Wolfberg

Abstinence is the great medicine.

- Unknown

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

Voltaire

The fact is, there’s no such thing as “The Age of Abstinence.”

- Lizz Winstead

Lean abstinence, pale grief, and haggard care, The dire attendants of forlorn despair.

Mark Pattison

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is, by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he was poor.

Abstinence Sayings by William Temple

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

- George Eliot

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint.

Danish Proverb

Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

Guy De Maupassant

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

Robert South

I think it’s great to promote things other than abstinence.

- Jessie Miller

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

Abstinence Sayings by Samuel Johnson

Love is the only thing that changes abstinence from a prison into pleasure.

- jihad eltabey

What kind of favour is it to abstain from doing evil?

- Cicero

Love is the only thing that changes abstinence from a prison into pleasure.

Quotation by Jihad Eltabey

Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take.

Sir Thomas Elyot

While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence.

Isuna Hasekura

No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.

Abstinence Sayings by William Gilmore Simms

Life is the great indulgence – death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!”

- Quotation by Anton Szandor LaVey

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.

Bill Nye

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

Frances E. Willard

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

Oscar Wilde

Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.

John Tillotson

To preach abstinence, I think, is absolutely not the right message to give to kids.

- Molly Ringwald

Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one’s work and one’s mate.

- Abstinence Sayings by Lance Morrow

It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.

Aristippus

We obviously endorse abstinence and postponement. But we’re not exclusive to that. We incorporate a comprehensive program as well.

- Dave Nichols

It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn’t know what they mean to you.

- Quotation by Michael Bassey Johnson

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.

Samuel Johnson

Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.

William Blake

Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.

Plato

Sometimes, being told not to do something just makes us want it all the more. Sometimes, a little of what you crave is better than total abstinence.

- Joanne Harris

When you’re dating, abstinence is a greater expression of love than making love, because you’re doing what’s best for your beloved, not just what feels good in the moment.

- Jason Evert

Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul.

- Marcus Aurelius

Abstinence until marriage is the best thing for young people physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. It's the best thing for society as a whole, and it's the message that schools absolutely ought to be sending.

Kathy Martin

Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage.

Thucydides

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

My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

Robert E. Lee