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Quote Left Abstinence sows sand all overThe ruddy limbs and flaming hair,But Desire GratifiedPlants fruits of life and beauty there. Quote Right
Quote Left At one time or another I have insulted everybody, and I am proud of that. Folks, let me sum it up for you: I think religion is bad, and drugs are good. I think America causes cancer, longevity is less important than fun and young people should be discouraged from voting. I think stereotypes are true, abstinence is a pervsion, Bush’s lies are worse than Clinton’s and there is nothing sexy about being old or pregnant. I think 9-11 changed nothing, and if I had known the onset of war would add a hundred points on to Bush’s IQ, I would have started one. I think pornography stops rape, I think AIDS ribbons are stupid, and flag burning makes me feel patriotic. I think death is not the worst thing that can happen. I think people have too much self-esteem, and being drunk is funny. I think children are not innocent, God doesn’t write books, and Jesus wasn’t a republican. I am for mad cow disease, and against suing tobacco companies. I think girls hate each other, no doesn’t always mean no, you have to lie to stay married, women’s sports are boring, and the Olympics are gay. We’ll be on for another six weeks here on ABC… Quote Right
Quote Left Abstinence sows sand all overThe ruddy limbs & flaming hair,But Desire GratifiedPlants fruits of life & beauty there. Quote Right
Quote Left I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence....I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour.But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness adorns a soldier...But abstinence is forgiveness only when there is the power to punish; it is meaningless when it pretends to proceed from a helpless creature....But I do not believe India to be helpless....I do not believe myself to be a helpless creature....Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. Quote Right
Quote Left 'If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.' Quote Right
Quote Left Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. Quote Right
Quote Left Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. Quote Right
Quote Left All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. Quote Right
Quote Left With renunciation life begins. Quote Right
Quote Left Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney. Quote Right
Quote Left Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket. Quote Right
Quote Left Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one. Quote Right
Quote Left Its 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. Quote Right
Quote Left And must I wholly banish hence these red and golden juices, and pay my vows to Abstinence, that pallidest of Muses? Quote Right
Quote Left I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. Quote Right
Quote Left Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. Quote Right
Quote Left For to whom is it not manifest that justice is increased through abstinence? For he who abstains from everything living, though he may abstain from such animals as do not contribute to the benefit of society, will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. Quote Right
Quote Left Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature . Quote Right
Quote Left We (the Christian Leaders) practice Abstinence From the Flesh of Animals to subdue our bodies..... THE UNNATURAL EATING OF FLESH MEAT OF ANIMALS IS OF DEMONICAL ORIGIN...... the eating of Flesh is Polluting. Quote Right
Quote Left The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. Quote Right
Quote Left Use, do not abuse neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. Quote Right
Quote Left Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence. Quote Right
Quote Left Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly. Quote Right
Quote Left A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'. Quote Right
Quote Left Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult. Quote Right
Quote Left Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. Quote Right
Quote Left Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted. Quote Right
Quote Left If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. Quote Right
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