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The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Abstinence is easier than temperance
Abstinence is easier than temperance
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Every egg represents 32 hours of jail for a chicken
kept in a 3 ft by 1 ft cage, debeaked.
Every egg represents 32 hours of jail for a chicken
kept in a 3 ft by 1 ft cage, debeaked.
In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.
In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he read more
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
Why have a cake if I can't eat it?
Why have a cake if I can't eat it?
No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward.
[Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi esse read more
No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward.
[Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi esse hominis puto
Cum is nihil promereat, postulare id gratiae apponi sibi.]
He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always read more
He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge
