Abstemious Quotes

#1. Hitler was the archetype of the abstemious man. When the other krauts saw him drink water in the Beer Hall they should have known he was not to be trusted.

A.J. Liebling

#2. I could see exactly what must have happened. Insert a liberal dose of mixed spirits in a normally abstemious man, and he becomes a force. He does not stand around, twiddling his fingers and stammering. He acts. I

P.G. Wodehouse

#3. I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

Edmund White

#4. Pleasure and guilt are synonymous terms in the language of the monks, and they discovered, by experience, that rigid fasts, and abstemious diet, are the most effectual preservatives against the impure desires of the flesh.

Edward Gibbon

#5. Someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly.

Paul Graham

#6. There are party leaders, big corporation, Wall Street. There are very wealthy individuals who kind of represent where the Democratic Party, the official Democratic Party was and to some extent still is.

Robert Reich

#7. Porfirio Rubirosa.

Junot Diaz

#8. When we think of our family, our spouse, parents, or children, let us see them as a gift from God.

Dillon Burroughs

#9. If you do not enjoy a moment, you lose it forever. If you enjoy it, it is yours forever.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Friendship is a give and take. You have to have a strong relationship with your friend and I think you have to offer them something and they have to offer you something and that's to always learn from it.

Raven-Symone

#11. Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

Clifton Fadiman

#12. No matter how you get here or where you end up, human beings have this miraculous gift to make that place home.

Creed Bratton