Famous Quotes
18 Quotations with Abstain.
- 1. George Eliot: Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy ev ...
- 2. Ambrose Bierce: ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pl ...
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: RUM, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes ...
- 5. Ambrose Bierce: TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the indiv ...
- 6. Plutarch: Abstain from beans.
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure ...
- 8. Horace Greeley: Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
- 9. Epictetus: All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
- 10. Niccolo Machiavelli: I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any c ...
- 11. Ludwig Feuerbach: I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the ...
- 12. Epictetus: So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, ...
- 13. Friedrich Nietzsche: These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out ...
- 14. St. Augustine: To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to ...
- 15. George Bernard Shaw: Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
- 16. John Milton: What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowl ...
- 17. Zoroaster: When you doubt, abstain.
- 18. Ambrose Bierce: Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleas ...