#abstinence

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#complete #easier #moderation #perfect #than

Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are? ↗

— John Green

#humor #teens #twitter #humor

Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex. ↗

— Kurt Angle

#best #heros #join #me #olympic

How is it that mankind can engineer condoms to prevent pregnancy and STDs and not be able to invent some sort of emotional safeguard? Is it even possible to abstain from falling in love? ↗

— Daria Snadowsky

#falling-in-love #std #love

I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater. Some parents have entirely prohibited their children from tasting intoxicating liquors; but a parent’s authority cannot last for ever; children are naturally prone to hanker after forbidden things; and a child, in such a case, would be likely to have a strong curiosity to taste, and try the effect of what has been so lauded and enjoyed by others, so strictly forbidden to himself – which curiosity would generally be gratified on the first convenient opportunity; and the restraint once broken, serious consequences might ensue. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#children #control #evil #excess #moderation

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

#condemns #good #half #loudly #moderate

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#abstinence #condoms #deal #deaths #deny

Dude, you don't want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#death #death

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

— Voltaire

#abuse #ever #excess #happy #man

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

— William Temple

#abstinence #exercise #healthy #live #man