Celibacy/buddhism

Famous quotes containing the words celibacy and/or buddhism:

“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.”
—W. Winwood Reade (1838–1875)