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 | God created sex. Priests created marriage. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 35 likes |
 | Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 22 likes |
 | Love is a matter of chemistry, but sex is a matter of physics. — Alexandre Dumas, 1802-1870, French writer 22 likes |
 | Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 20 likes |
 | Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite. — Marquis de Sade, 1740-1814, French writer 19 likes |
 | I’ve always said, “If you need Viagra, you're probably with the wrong girl.” — Donald Trump, 1946-, President of the USA 15 likes |
 | Sex is emotion in motion. — Mae West, 1893-1980, American actress 13 likes |
 | Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him. — Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962, American actress 12 likes |
 | She has slept with every male star at MGM except Lassie. — Bette Davis, 1908-1989, American actress (on rival Joan Crawfor) 12 likes |
 | The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 12 likes |
 | Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't! — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 11 likes |
 | Bite marks are love notes written in flesh. — Anonymous 11 likes |
 | Sex is much better with a woman, but then one can't live with a woman. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 11 likes |
 | The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labor. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 11 likes |
| Sex is God's joke on human beings. — Bette Davis, 1908-1989, American actress 10 likes |
 | The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong. — Theodore Adorno, 1903-1969, German philosopher 10 likes |
 | When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intellect go away. And one third of his religion. — Zadie Smith, 1975-, British writer 10 likes |
 | Women do not sleep with men, but with abstract concepts: power, power, reputation, money, fashion… — Jean Dutourd, 1920-2011, French writer 10 likes |
| In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 10 likes |
 | A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest. — Helen Rowland, 1875-1950, American journalist & humorist 9 likes |
 | I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 9 likes |
 | Few women inspire tenderness after sex, few men have the courtesy to fake it. — Maurice Chapelan, 1906-1992, French author of maxims & journalist 8 likes |
 | An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. — Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer 8 likes |
 | Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse yet he has left it out of his
heaven. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 8 likes |
 | At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves. — Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007, French intellectual 8 likes |
 | A man who thinks not of a woman as the complement of a sex, but of sex as the complement of a woman, is ready for love. — André Malraux, 1901-1976, French writer & statesman 8 likes |
 | Ducking for apples -change one letter and it's the story of my life. — Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, American writer, poet, satirist, critic 7 likes |
 | The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 7 likes |
 | It is sexual energy which governs the structure of human feeling and thinking. — Wilhelm Reich, 1897-1957, Austrian psychoanalyst & writer 7 likes |
| Sex in France is a comedy; in England it is a tragedy; in America it's a melodrama; in Italy it's an opera; in Germany, a reason to take up philosophy — Anonymous 7 likes |
 | The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs. — D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, British writer 6 likes |
 | If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. — Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American poet 6 likes |
 | If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth. — Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, American poet & writer 5 likes |
 | Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 5 likes |
 | Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 5 likes |
 | Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014, Colombian writer 5 likes |
 | The trouble is that sex is a force of nature, and reason is not. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist 5 likes |
 | Life in Lubbock, Texas taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth, and you should save it for someone you love. — Butch Hancock, 1945-, American singer 5 likes |
| At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance. — Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007, French intellectual 4 likes |
 | Except for 75% of the women, everyone in the whole world wants to have sex. — Ellyn Mustard, (unidentified) 4 likes |
 | Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 4 likes |
| Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common. — Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, American writer, poet, satirist, critic 4 likes |
 | Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television. — Gore Vidal, 1925-2012, American writer 4 likes |
 | The best deals and the best sex happens outside of boundaries. — Aristotle Onassis, 1900-1975, Greek tycoon 4 likes |
 | But is it true love, in the rectum? That’s what bothers me sometimes. — Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Irish writer, Nobel 1969 4 likes |
| So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes - with the exception of their occupation. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 4 likes |
| In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 4 likes |
| Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules. — Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007, French intellectual 4 likes |
 | Man cannot live without joy. That is why one deprived of spiritual joys goes over to carnal pleasures. — Saint Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274, Italian Dominican friar & philosopher 4 likes |
 | Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets. — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist 3 likes |
 | When one loves, it has nothing to do with sex. — Jacques Lacan, 1901-1981, French psychoanalyst 3 likes |
 | Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty. — Aleister Crowley, 1875-1945, British magician & occultist, 3 likes |
 | Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable. — Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946, American writer 3 likes |
| What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates. — Marquis de Sade, 1740-1814, French writer 3 likes |
| Sex is the biggest nothing of all time. — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist 2 likes |
| I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair. — Gore Vidal, 1925-2012, American writer 2 likes |
 | It's love that is inescapable. Sex is the merest accident. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 2 likes |
 | Man begins by loving sex and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving sex. |
 | Acting is like sex: you either do it and don't talk about it, or you talk about it and don't do it. That's why I'm always suspicious of people who talk too much about either. |
 | Money is like sex. It seems much more important when you don't have any. |
| Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable. |
 | Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. |
 | From primitive times to our own, intercourse has always been considered a "service" for which the male thanks the woman by giving her presents or assuring her maintenance; but to serve is to give oneself a master. |
| Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. |
 | If a woman sleeps alone, we, all men, are to blame. We shall have to give an answer for this on Judgment Day. — Nikos Kazantzakis, 1883-1957, Greek writer (Alexis Zorbas speaking) |
 | The woman gives herself only to her first love; to all the others, she takes it back! |
 | Love prefers twilight to daylight. |
 | Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex. |
 | I don't think pornography is harmful, but it is terribly, terribly boring. |
 | Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on. |
 | After making love, the first to speak says something stupid. |
 | Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex. |
| My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live. |
| Someday every woman will have orgasms – like every family has color TV – and we can all get on with the business of life. |
| If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body – and with it your own voice – and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all. |
| We all have our particular preferences. Mine is gentle sex, the kind in which a man takes forever before he touches you down there. But most people are so guilty about sex that they want the crime and the punishment built in. |
| Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. |
| Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them. |
| Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of. |
 | Love starts with the head, and it ends with three small drops in the pee pipe. |
 | Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war. |
| I don't know whether you've ever had a woman eat an apple while you were doing it. Well, you can imagine how that affects you. |
| What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse. |
| A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing. |
 | Each generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and in Victorian England; the differences lie only in the degree of coverup — if any. |
 | They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. |
Funny Quotes
| Life is a sexually transmitted disease. — Anonymous 16 likes |
| Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich. — Anonymous 10 likes |
 | I asked my wife, “last night, were you faking it?” She said, “No, I was really sleeping.” — Rodney Dangerfield, 1924-2004, American comedian 9 likes |
 | Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in. — Katharine Whitehorn, 1928-2021, British columnist 8 likes |
| Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 8 likes |
| Sex without love is an empty experience. But as empty experiences go, it's one of the best. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 8 likes |
| If it wasn't for pick-pockets I'd have no sex life at all. — Rodney Dangerfield, 1924-2004, American comedian 7 likes |
| What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife. — Rodney Dangerfield, 1924-2004, American comedian 7 likes |
| Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 6 likes |
| Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 6 likes |
| A woman is, occasionally, quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. It takes an abundance of imagination, to be sure. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 6 likes |
 | Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. — George Burns, 1896-1996, American comedian 5 likes |
| Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 5 likes |
| I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. — George Burns, 1896-1996, American comedian 5 likes |
| I figured out I’m bisexual. I have sex twice a year. — Rodney Dangerfield, 1924-2004, American comedian 5 likes |
 | Sex, that’s meaningless, I can understand that, but dinner; that’s heavy. That’s like an hour. — Jerry Seinfeld, 1954-, American comedian 5 likes |
 | Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her. — Oscar Levant, 1906-1972, American pianist 4 likes |
| I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 4 likes |
| Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant. |
 | If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School. |
 | Children ought to watch pornographic movies: it's healthier than learning about sex from Hollywood. |
Ancient Greek
 | When the lamp goes off, all the women are the same. Λυχνίας σβεσθείσης, πάσα γυνή ομοία. — Diogenes, 410-323 BC, Ancient Greek Cynic philosopher 11 likes |
 | By Zeus, I don’t need anything, I just want to get laid! Μα Δί’ ουδὲ δέομαί γ’, αλλά βινείν βούλομαι. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Lysistrata 10 likes |
| So, we must refrain from the penis. Αφεκτέα τοίνυν εστίν ημίν του πέους. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Lysistrata 7 likes |
 | Neither because of it nor without it. Ούτε δια τούτου ούτε άνευ τούτου. — Aristippus, 435-355 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher (answering the question “Does Love exist for Sex?”) 6 likes |
 | An oath taken during sex is not valid. Αφροδίσιος γαρ όρκος ουκ εμποίνιμος. 6 likes |
Proverbs
 | Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth. 10 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half. — from the film Ninotchka (1939) 8 likes |
 | If a woman sleeps alone, it puts a shame on all men. — from the film Zorba the Greek (1964) 7 likes |
 | Sex and death. Two things that come once in a lifetime. But at least after death you're not nauseous. — from the film Sleeper (1973) 7 likes |
 | - Why don't you want to make love anymore? - All right. Let's do it, but fast. — from the film Contempt (1963) 6 likes |
 | Go, get the butter… — from the film Last Tango in Paris (1972) 6 likes |
 | - You are the greatest lover I've ever had. - Well, I practice a lot when I'm alone. — from the film Love and Death (1975) 5 likes |
 | Hey, don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love. — from the film Annie Hall (1977) 5 likes |
 | Hey, everybody, we're all gonna get laid. — from the film Caddyshack (1980) 5 likes |
| Sex with you is really a Kafka-esque experience...I mean that as a compliment. — from the film Annie Hall (1977) 4 likes |
