Abstains Quotes

The desire for sensual pleasures fades away if one abstains from sense enjoyment, but the craving [for sense enjoyment] remains. The craving also disappears from the one who has seen [or known] the Supreme. - Bhagavad Gita

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally. - Ambrose Bierce

If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power. - Elliot Richardson

I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i.e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one. - Ludwig Feuerbach

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains. - Francois Rabelais

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. - Ambrose Bierce