Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder for someone else

If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.

It is difficult to talk and to do yogic breathing exercises at the same time. Kissing, talking, eating, breathing.. must drive carefully in each others' corridors.

Why have a cake if I can't eat it?

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

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.

We all know there is blood in meat (USDA hearings in Senate Ag committee).

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

"meat produced under current factory farming conditions (which transgress Jewish prohibitions against cruelty to animals) render the eating of such meat, halachically unacceptable (i.e. unacceptable in terms of Jewish law.)"

Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.

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

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

Every egg represents 32 hours of jail for a chicken kept in a 3 ft by 1 ft cage, debeaked.