Abstinence Quotes
Most popular abstinence quotes
![Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. - John Dryden quote.](/img/q/55/4955A-better-shun-the-bait-than-struggle-snare-john-dryden.png)
Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
![The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.](/img/q/15/6515A-the-way-to-avoid-evil-is-not-by-maiming-our-henry-ward-beecher.png)
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
![Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult. - Samuel Johnson quote.](/img/q/79/18679A-abstinence-is-as-easy-to-me-as-temperance-would-be-samuel-johnson.png)
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
![Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. - Ambrose Bierce quote.](/img/q/52/25052A-abstainer-n-a-weak-person-who-yields-temptation-denying-himself-ambrose-bierce.png)
Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
![Against diseases here the strongest fence
Is the defensive virtue, abstinence. - Robert Herrick quote.](/img/q/55/25055A-against-diseases-here-the-strongest-fence-is-defensive-virtue-abstinence-robert-herrick.png)
Against diseases here the strongest fence Is the defensive virtue, abstinence.
![Refrain tonight,
And that shall lend a kind of easiness
To the next abstinence; the next more easy. - William Shakespeare quote.](/img/q/56/25056A-refrain-tonight-and-that-shall-lend-kind-easiness-next-abstinence-william-shakespeare.png)
Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy.
![The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want [i.e., lack] shoes. - Jonathan Swift quote.](/img/q/57/25057A-the-stoical-scheme-of-supplying-our-wants-by-lopping-off-jonathan-swift.png)
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want [i.e., lack] shoes.