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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Why have a cake if I can't eat it?
Why have a cake if I can't eat it?
Reborn, Sappho
wears monks' saffron.
Reborn, Sappho
wears monks' saffron.
Abstinence is easier than temperance
Abstinence is easier than temperance
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
Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
POINT OF VIEW
Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless
Christmas dinner's dark and blue
When you stop and try to read more
POINT OF VIEW
Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless
Christmas dinner's dark and blue
When you stop and try to see it
From the turkey's point of view.
Sunday dinner isn't sunny
Easter feasts are just bad luck
When you see it from the viewpoint
Of a chicken or a duck.
Oh how I once loved tuna salad
Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too
Till I stopped and looked at dinner
From the dinner's point of view.
Abstinence is the surety of temperance
Abstinence is the surety of temperance
We all know there is blood in meat
(USDA hearings in Senate Ag committee).
We all know there is blood in meat
(USDA hearings in Senate Ag committee).