“I used to think that people just hate vegans; I have since discovered ...” — Romesh Ranganathan Quote

I used to think that people just hate vegans; I have since discovered that everybody hates anyone who abstains from anything.

Everyone seems so excited by the fact that music is more accessible, people can find new artists more easily and it's cheaper, without focusing on the potential negatives, not least of which is that idiots can more easily listen to your favourite music.

My childhood memories are filled with hugs and kisses from both my mum and dad. My mum has a thing about kissing you an odd number of times: if she kisses you once, all good, but if she kisses you twice, then you know another one has to follow and, weirdly, she tends to go for the forehead.

My problem is that we are all listening to music in a more disposable fashion.

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

A woman who abstains from motherhood saying 'I am working' means she is in fact rejecting motherhood.

Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.