(19 quotes found)
“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
“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
“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
“It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.”
Jane Austen
“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
“Vice is waste of life. Poverty, obedience and celibacy are the canonical vices.”
George Bernard Shaw
“I guess I'm a good story teller. What makes me a prolific writer is two factors at work. Celibacy; I don't have a family to distract me. And I'm glib. I reached facility with words.”
Andrew Greeley
“It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin”
Henry Louis Mencken
