Continence may refer to:
- Fecal incontinence, the inability to control one's bowels
- Incontinence (philosophy), a lack of self-control (Greek: ἀκρασία)
- Sexual abstinence as a state of life
- Urinary incontinence, the involuntary excretion of urine
Famous quotes containing the word continence:
“What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“If intercourse gives you thrombosis
And continence causes neurosis,
I’d rather expire
Fulfilling desire
Than live in a state of psychosis.”
—Anonymous.