Abstinence

(590 votes)   Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(513 votes)   Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(471 votes)   Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.

William Penn
1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania

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(458 votes)   Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

W. C. Fields
1879-1946, American Actor

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(457 votes)   The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Dorothy Day
1897-1980, American Religious Leader

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(451 votes)   Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

Horace Greeley
1811-1872, American Newspaper Editor

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