Famous Abstinence Quotes

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
-- Horace Greeley

Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint.
-- Danish Proverb

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
-- Epictetus

Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
-- William Penn

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
-- St Augustine

Every egg represents 32 hours of jail for a chicken kept in a 3 ft by 1 ft cage, debeaked.
-- Art Margolis

I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.
-- Dean Martin

It is difficult to talk and to do yogic breathing exercises at the same time. Kissing, talking, eating, breathing.. must drive carefully in each others' corridors.
-- O Anna Niemus

meat produced under current factory farming conditions render the eating of such meat, halachically unacceptable
-- Rabbi David Rosen

Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
-- W C Fields

POINT OF VIEW Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless Christmas dinner's dark and blue When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view. Sunday dinner isn't sunny Easter feasts are just bad luck When you see it from the viewpoint Of a chicken or a duck. Oh how I once loved tuna salad Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too Till I stopped and looked at dinner From the dinner's point of view.
-- Shel Silverstein

Reborn, Sappho wears monks' saffron.
-- Saiom Shriver

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
-- Charles Dickens

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
-- Dorothy Day

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

We all know there is blood in meat .
-- Charles Grassley