#abstinence

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

— Frances E. Willard

#foul #good #moderation #temperance #things

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#bad #created #during #few #great

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason. ↗

— Robert South

#clearer #great #reason

Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?! ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#diet #self-indulgence #diet

There is more to life than what we know and there is more to sex than what we know.Life was designed by God for a purpose and so was sex.Life is sweet and sacred and so also is sex.But there is more to life than sex.Sex becomes profitable when you understand life, but very destructive when the purpose of life is not known. ↗

— oladepo olatunbosun

#educative #design

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

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