Celibacy/secular

Famous quotes containing the words celibacy and/or secular:

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

“Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)