Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

There were a WHOLE LOTTA us not having sex at Harvard . . . but none of us thought that that was special enough to start a club about it, for pete’s sake.

I didn’t practice abstinence, I perfected it.

In addition to shaming sexual-assault victims, positioning abstinence as women’s domain further promotes the notion that it’s women’s morality that’s on the line when it comes to sex, men just can’t help themselves, so their...

Shan stared at his glass, then lifted it under his nose. It was the closest he would knowingly get to tasting the hard liquor. It was not because it would violate the vows of the...

Sixty years of virginity tried in vain to dam the waters of instinct as they burst through the granite of good intentions,the rock of irreproachablee conduct.

We obviously endorse abstinence and postponement. But we’re not exclusive to that. We incorporate a comprehensive program as well.

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!… except of course when they are alone.

Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing ‘Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals’ t-shirts: Doesn’t it depend on what my goals are?

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There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale.

God made me this way.” God has made it very clear that He does not want you to indulge your desires, but to honor Him by keeping your mind and body pure. Finally, seek professional...

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

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Dude, you don’t want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten.

the president didn’t talk about manufacturing jobs. All he talked about was making the tax cuts permanent, high school abstinence, steroids for athletes and training prisoners for jobs. People were worried about their jobs. That...

The evidence does not support abstinence-only interventions as the best way to keep young people from unintended pregnancy.

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

Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innocence rather than Nobleness;...

I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater....

It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn’t know what they mean to you.