From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
When you doubt, abstain.
I'm pro-responsible choice. There is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kind of good choices.
All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.
I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.
I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat.
Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.
I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.
It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.