A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

- Ambrose Bierce

When you doubt, abstain.

- Ambrose Bierce

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.

- Elaine Stritch

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

- Michael Douglas

I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat.

- Nikola Tesla