No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare.-- Kingsley Amis
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. -- St. Augustine
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. -- Ambrose Bierce
If you say, "Would there were no wine" because of the drunkards, then you must say, going on by degrees, "Would there were no steel," because of the murderers, "Would there were no night," because of the thieves, "Would there were no light," because of the informers, and "Would there were no women," because of adultery. -- St. John Chrysostom: Homilies, c. 388
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult. -- Samuel Johnson
An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons -- marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning. -- C S Lewis, Mere Christianity
Abstinence engenders maladies. ~W.S. Love's Labours Lost, IV,3
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable,drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation.They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
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