CELIBACY

Related Subjects: Bachelor, Chastity, Marriage, Monk and Nun, Virginity

1. Certainly, the best works and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.—BACON, Essays
   

2. One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

3. The senseless practice of celibacy has been ranked from a remote period as a virtue.—DARWIN
   

4. There is ample ethical justification for celibacy as a self-imposed and purposive denial, and some few are born to this state.—W. M. GALLICHAN, The Great Unmarried
   

5. In Greece and Rome, and notably in Sparta, celibacy was regarded almost as a misdemeanor.—W. M. GALLICHAN, The Great Unmarried
   

6. Celibates replace sentiment by habits.—GEORGE MOORE, Impressions
   

7. Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse-pond.—T. L. PEACOCK, Melincourt
   

8. Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood,
   To undergo such maiden pilgrimage;
   But earthlier happy is the rose dis­till'd,
   Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn,
   Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.—SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer-Night's Dream
   

9. The celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.—JEREMY TAYLOR, Sermons