Abstainer Quotes

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. (Ambrose Bierce)
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder. View quote
Hermann Hesse