There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around,… — Florence King Copy Share Image
There is a line between sexualityand promiscuity, and the line is closer to celibacy than not. — Betty Jane Wylie Copy Share Image
“Don’t deny to the body what is naturally its right, not even under religious pretext” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“What kinda vows?" Celibacy? I thought, though I didn't say it. Nobody keeps a celibacy vow anyway.” — Cassandra Rose Clarke Copy Share Image
Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Children, those who are unmarried should conserve their vital energy by maintaining celibacy. To turn what we gain by this in to… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command. — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
And whatsoever is repressed has to be repressed again because victory is never complete. There is no way to destroy sex by… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Honestly, celibacy isn't hard. It's the gasers that sell you broken promises and try to get you off of God's plan offering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a… — Sam Manekshaw Copy Share Image
“When is one considered to have learnt to become a husband? It is when the wife continuously experiences veneration (respect) for him.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Relation with another man or a woman, other than one’s own husband or a wife, is a direct cause for a life… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
No longer will our penises remain flaccid and unused! From now on, we fight will for every man out there who isn't… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
“The Soul is indeed such that the mahavrats (five great vows of truth, non-possessiveness, non-violence, non-stealing, and celibacy as expounded by Lord… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats. — Sean O Faolain Copy Share Image
Italian women are some of the most beautiful in the world. This is why the Vatican is in Italy. If a man… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
A world filled with temptations needs priests who are totally dedicated to their mission. Accordingly, they are asked in a very special… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first to the sacred garments… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Vishay (sensual pleasure) is just vishay alone. However when indulging in sensual pleasure, if one has ignorance of the Self, then kashay… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
