ABSTINENCE

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
Oscar Wilde

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
George Eliot

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Dorothy Day

Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
William Penn

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
Horace Greeley

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields