It is easier to abstain than to restrain.
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.
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
We abstained from having sex until we got married.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
I'm the worst ad anyone could possibly be for abstaining from anything.
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
I'm pro-responsible choice. There is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kind of good choices.
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat.
I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices.
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.
Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
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.
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.
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.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
