Celibacy Quotes

This section contains Celibacy Quotes
I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives. (Quote by - Roger Lewis)


Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond. (Quote by - Thomas Love Peacock)


Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)


It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)


Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse. (Quote by - Peter De Vries)


I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single. (Quote by - Penelope Cruz)


For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited. (Quote by - Robert Rainy)


Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord. (Quote by - Joseph Ratzinger)


First Law of Socio-Genetics: Celibacy is not hereditary. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)


The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)


Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors and unites. (Quote by - Jeremy Taylor)


Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty. (Quote by - Timothy Radcliffe)


The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy. (Quote by - William P. Leahy)


As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. (Quote by - Socrates)


Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats. (Quote by - Sean O'Faolain)



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