abstinence quotes

• Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence. (Samuel Butler) [abstinence]
• Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably. (Truman Capote) [attorney/abstinence/talent/system]
• They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. (Marcus Cicero) [speak/abstinence]
• Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones. (Oliver Goldsmith) [life/abstinence]
• Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. (Samuel Johnson) [exercise/willpower/abstinence]
• Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men. (John F. Kennedy) [viewpoint/abstinence/matter/face]
• Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist. (Thomas Mann) [human/being/abstinence]
• Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [abstinence]
• Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. (Theodore Roosevelt) [wealth/abstinence/envy/hatred]
• Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over. (Arthur Schopenhauer) [library/abstinence/amount/knowledge]
• Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention, ... I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic. (Ashley Judd) [abstinence/being/condom/reach]
• So moderate is insisting that North Korea should open door to outside. (Kim Dae-jung) [abstinence]

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