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

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.

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

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

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

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 read more

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.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

"meat produced under current factory farming conditions
(which transgress Jewish prohibitions against cruelty to animals) render the eating of such read more

"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 and fasting cure many a complaint.

Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint.

Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder for someone else

Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder for someone else

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.