“As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.”
Socrates
“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”
Samuel Johnson
“It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.”
Jane Austen
“The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.”
Pope John Paul II
“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.”
Penelope Cruz
“Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond”
Thomas Love Peacock
“Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.”
Peter De Vries
