Celibacy

(209 votes)   How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(119 votes)   Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

Thomas Love Peacock
1785-1866, British Author

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(118 votes)   I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.

Roger Lewis
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