Top 23 Abstainer Quotes
#1. Unless I am mistaken, it was Mr. Welch himself (an adamant total abstainer) who persuaded American Protestantism to abandon what the Lord obviously thought rather kindly of.
Robert Farrar Capon
#2. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
Ambrose Bierce
#3. Now that I know I'm an Upholder, an Abstainer, a Marathoner, a Finisher, and a Lark, and have spent a lot of time thinking about what is, and isn't, important to me, I'm much better able to shape my habits.
Gretchen Rubin
#4. Be proud to act like a normal human being. Keep daylight hours, get a regular job, and mix in the company of people with a fixed sense of right and wrong.
The Abstainer's Handbook (second edition, p. 89)
Matt Haig
#5. Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#6. Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.
Will Rogers
#7. I give nightly praise to my Maker that I never cast a ballot to bring that lazy, disreputable, ill-tempered beast into what was once my home. I'm glad that I had the courage to go on record as opposing that illegitimate, shameless flea-bag that now shares my bed and board. You abstainer, you!
Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
#8. Like Dr. Johnson, I'm an Abstainer: I find it far easier to give up something altogether than to indulge moderately. And this distinction has profound implications for habits.
Gretchen Rubin
#9. Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Ambrose Bierce
#10. An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.
George Jean Nathan
#11. In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.
Bjork
#13. Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.
Frederick Lenz
#14. Relatively few people should start companies.
Reid Hoffman
#15. To start with you had to keep from getting arrested by the police. Then, you had to keep from getting cheated in the games. You also had to worry about collecting the money if you won. Then finally, after all that was said and done - you had to keep from getting hijacked.
Doyle Brunson
#16. You ought to marry her, then. A man could do worse. How many men can say their wife is their best friend? Besides me, of course. I cannot too highly praise the magic of sharing every day of your life with the one person most calculated to give you pleasure.
Cheryl Bolen
#17. I'm pretty sure all the individuals trying to control other people's happiness have none in their own lives.
Sarah Liss
#18. You don't know what's behind that smile. You can't imagine who someone will turn out to be. We assume the sun will rise every morning just because it has done every other day, but what happens when you wake up to darkness? When you open your eyes and find, today is the one different day? I
Abigail Haas
#20. And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
#21. What is needed is the vision to go with it, and you do not get this from a writing class.
Flannery O'Connor
#22. A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
Ludwig Von Mises
#23. The occasional alarming flash of Aral's doubts, like vivid filaments of lava seen through a surface one had thought safe stone.
Lois McMaster Bujold
