Abstinence Only Sayings

#1. The abstinence-only programs and reclaimed-virginity movement make men and women ashamed of being sexual creatures before or outside of marriage.

Darrel Ray

#2. I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.

Joycelyn Elders

#3. I'm not convinced that abstinence-only education works.

Barbara Delinsky

#4. The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price.

Cecile Richards

#5. Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.

Rachel Maddow

#6. You're quite right there," he said. "I have practiced abstinence myself for years, and had my time of fasting, too, but now I find myself once more beneath the sign of Aquarius, a dark and humid constellation.

Hermann Hesse

#7. Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person.

Josef Pieper

#8. While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence.

Isuna Hasekura

#9. Another abstinence book claims, A woman is far more attracted by a man's personality, while a man is stimulated by sight. A man is usually less discriminating about those to whom he is physically attracted.

Jessica Valenti

#10. The state, by relieving idleness, improvidence, or misconduct from punishment, and depriving abstinence and foresight of the reward, which have been provided for them by nature, may indeed destroy wealth, but most certainly will aggravate poverty.

Nassau William Senior

#11. Due to the paucity of intellect people do not realise that it is through the discipline of regulated abstinence that one can really enjoy the world. Your intellect must constantly check and control indiscriminate indulgence.

A. Parthasarathy

#12. The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.

Clement Of Alexandria

#13. One advantage resulting from good actions is that they elevate the soul to a disposition of attempting still better; for such is human weakness, that we must place among our good deeds an abstinence from those crimes we are tempted to commit.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#14. Refrain tonight And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence: the next more easy; For use alomost can change the stamp of nature

William Shakespeare

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

Wilhelm Reich

#16. Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Thomas Jefferson

#17. Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.

Xenophon

#18. Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic.

Ashley Judd

#19. I think I'm an abstinence symbol. If I take my shirt off, people will not have babies.

Jesse Eisenberg

#20. Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger
not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#21. Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

Aldo Leopold

#22. The reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

Rebecca West

#23. I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.

Jacqueline Carey

#24. Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

Robert South

#25. The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

William Temple

#26. Well, that brings us to the point: There is only one way to protect ourselves from the deadly diseases that stalk the human family. It is abstinence before marriage, then marriage and mutual fidelity for life to an uninfected partner.

James C. Dobson

#27. If it comes at all, Emerson has cautioned that one's call might not come for years. If it doesn't, he remarks it as only a reflection of the universe's faith in one's abstinence, nothing to move the heart to fret

Frederick Exley

#28. Love is the only thing that changes abstinence from a prison into pleasure.

Jihad Eltabey

#29. There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.

Hillary Clinton

#30. The only way to ensure completely safe sex with a 40-foot long, 6-ton predator is abstinence.

Carrie Sessarego

#31. If your heart says, "Maybe I shouldn't be doing this," listen to your heart, pray for strength, and get out of the situation immediately.

Jason Evert

#32. Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.

William Blake

#33. Whether electing abstinence from sex or choosing to engage in sex with multiple lovers, sexual empowerment is about making decisions which are right and safe and true for you.

Miya Yamanouchi

#34. Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

Saint Augustine

#35. Professor Morgulis wrote: "The acuity of the senses is increased by fasting, and at the end of his 31 days' abstinence from food, Professor Levanzin could see twice as far as he could when his fast began.

Hilton Hotema

#36. Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !

Benjamin Franklin

#37. You'd better touch me before something happens spontaneously that makes me look embarrassingly desperate."
"Really?" He lowered just close enough for his chest to graze the fabric covering her bra, squeezing a squeak from her throat. "I'd like to watch that. You're making abstinence sound fun.

Brynn Kelly

#38. Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed with pure waters, and that is the stain of hatred and bigotry contaminating the soul. You can purify your body through abstinence and fasting, but only love will purify your heart.

Elif Shafak

#39. Use, do not abuse ... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Voltaire

#40. What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Abstinence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.

Joel Siegel

#41. I'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold - why do a vampire story about abstinence?

Alan Ball

#42. Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

Samuel Johnson

#43. When a married person uses pornography, or is unfaithful, it compromises not just his (or her) purity, but also compromises the spouse's purity. As a church, we need to teach a higher standard than abstinence. We need to preach a righteous lifestyle.

Christine O'Donnell

#44. Life was pretty perfect. All because a sexy chick broke her abstinence pledge to enjoy a night of fun. One hot roll in bed blossomed into love, marriage, and quite a few baby carriages. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Bijou Hunter

#45. Abstinence is a perversion.

Bill Maher

#46. Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.

Antonya Nelson

#47. The secular, for all its goodness, does not defend itself very well against mindless and perpetual consumption. It cries out to be offered by abstinence as well as use; to be appreciated, not simply absorbed. Hunger remains the best sauce.

Robert Farrar Capon

#48. He was also a vociferous champion of abstinence from hard or spirituous liquors - but then no one's perfect. In

David McCullough

#49. No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.

William Gilmore Simms

#50. Achieving true sobriety goes beyond abstinence. it's also about healing your soul, apologizing for damage you did to other, and seeking forgiveness.

Lou Gramm

#51. Abstinence. It didn't even sound comfortable

Stephanie Laurens

#52. Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Frances E. Willard

#54. Therefore, we are today far from wrong in applying this prophecy to the papists, who urge celibacy and abstinence from foods more forcefully than any precept of God. They

John Calvin

#55. [On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice ...

Queen Victoria

#56. Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.

George MacDonald