Celibacy Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Celibacy Dating Funny marriage Funny wedding Happy love Marriage Pain Pleasure Romance Wedding
Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require their legitimate satisfaction, and celibacy is a disregard of natural law. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond. — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“individual sexual drive varies greatly, that penetrative intercourse is not the only means of sexual satisfaction and that celibacy never killed anyone.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond. — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Most people that commit to a life of celibacy weren't leaving that much on the table in the first place. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks, Buddhist monks,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“This worldly life is very difficult. Mother-in-law comes, mother of the mother-in-law comes, sister of mother-in-law comes, aunt of mother-in-law comes. How many mother-in-laws… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think. I detect the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Sheel (the highest state of conduct in worldly interaction) is where not even an iota of a wrong intent arises within.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy. ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy, with the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
In the name of celibacy, sex has been repressed for centuries and you have become just full of sexuality. Rather than transcending it you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
There were the physical challenges of hitchhiking across Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan as they were quite dangerous areas. I wrote about that in… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Unlike celibacy, which people choose, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are. — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own… — Roger Lewis Copy Share Image
