Words matter. These are the best Abstain Quotes from famous people such as Carre Otis, Ambrose Bierce, Boris Pasternak, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Abraham Cahan, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can’t abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.
When you doubt, abstain.
In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.
A woman who abstains from motherhood saying ‘I am working’ means she is in fact rejecting motherhood.
Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.
It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.
It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country; I have more reason than anyone to feel, every day of my life, the value of the blood which flows in my veins, and it is only from prudence that at times I abstain from showing how proud I am of it.
As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.
I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat.
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
I used to think that people just hate vegans; I have since discovered that everybody hates anyone who abstains from anything.
I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I’m not a ‘little bit’ kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.
