Abstain Quotes


Abstain from animals.

Abstain from reading comedy or other government economic statistics.

Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation which dull the mind and weaken the body.

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

Abstain from all sinful unwholesome actions perform only pious wholesome ones purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones

Christ sayeth not Abstain from the flesh from marrying from housekeeping etc. as the Papists teach for that were even to invite the devil and all his fellows to a feast.

When you doubt abstain.

All philosophy lies in two words sustain and abstain.

I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat.

From the gut comes the strut and where hunger reigns strength abstains.

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

I'm pro-responsible choice. There is choice to abstain choice to do contraception. There are all kind of good choices.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin not to forsake it.

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything you can't eat anything you have to abstain.

I'm pro responsible choice. You know there is choice to abstain choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices.

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look smile or act.

I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all whatever I do.

I add that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power.

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.

Thou shalt abstain Renounce refrain.

When you are in doubt abstain.

To abstain from lying is essentially wholesome.

I know not how to abstain from reading.

In doubt if an action is just abstain.

We have the power to abstain from destructive behavior.

You shall abstain shall abstain. That is the eternal song.

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

I am obliged to renounce violence and abstain from it altogether.

I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.

Though a man cannot abstain from being weak he may from being vicious.

The future not being born my friend we will abstain from baptizing it.

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.

The only way to really have safe sex is to abstain. From drinking.

When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad abstain from it.

We live only to dance. If living were not an essential prerequisite we would abstain.

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

It is folly to abstain all day long from food but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.

To abstain from condemning a torturer is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.

Zoroaster said when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards when in doubt take the trick.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings and I abstain from it whenever I can.

To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.

Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain~?

The more princes abstain from touching the wealth of their people the greater will be their resources in the wants of the state.

We urge President Bush to abstain from the National Missile Defense just as we urge China India and Pakistan to discontinue their nuclear arsenals.

Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food

As a general rule I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power or to seek distant rather than immediate results are among the most painful exertions of the human will.

And while I initially resisted the thought of touching her of her wanting me to touch her . . . Well damn I just wasn't strong enough to abstain from that.

All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.

The British government has urged its citizens to abstain from alcohol at least two days a week. Or to make it easier to remember whenever they brush their teeth.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words toward anyone for neither diminishes the strength of the enemy.

I will follow that system of regimen which according to my ability and judgment I consider for the benefit of my patients and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.

We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to observe a wise and masterly inactivity.

It makes him hated above all things as I have said to be rapacious and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects from both of which he must abstain.

To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything so that a man cannot abstain from it is to lose a man's liberty and to become a servant of meat and drink or smoke.