#abstinence

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

#always #any #early #either #except

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#complete #easier #moderation #perfect #than

The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#administration #avoiding #bad #bad choices #behave

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#afterwards #better #help #seeking #sins

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

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty. ↗

— Henry Home

#body #cannot #enjoy #exercise #ingredients

There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale. ↗

— Joseph Livesey

#alcohol #ale #bread #food #nourishment

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