"Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no…" — Samuel Johnson

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• Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his… — Pope Benedict XVI
• He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is… — Sam Manekshaw
• To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot… — William Cobbett
• Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond. — Thomas Love Peacock
• That this is possible may not be denied in a world where hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily… — Adolf Hitler
• I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy. — Isaac Newton
• It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy… — H. L. Mencken
• What happens with your sex energy depends on how you use it. What it can become does not depend on… — Rajneesh
• As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent — Socrates
• In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect… — Alfred North Whitehead
• Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command. — Hans Kung
• If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy.… — P.D. James

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