Sex Quotes: Passionate Words and Wisecracks (Page 2)

"Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework"

"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"Sex is a two-way treat"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

"One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Sex is emotion in motion"

Mae West, Actress

"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"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"People will always choose more money over more sex"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

"Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve"

Julia Roberts, Actress

"I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

"I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

"I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds"

Joan Rivers, Comedian

"It's so long since I've had sex I've forgotten who ties up who"

Joan Rivers, Comedian

"It's been so long since I've had sex I've forgotten who ties up whom"

Joan Rivers, Comedian

"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"Sex is the last refuge of the miserable"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"The only reason to wait a month for sex is if she's 17 years, 11 months old"

Barney Stinson, Actor

"There's no religion but sex and music"

Sting, Musician

"The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Thoughts have no sex"

Clare Boothe Luce, Dramatist

"I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not"

Clare Boothe Luce, Dramatist

"Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist"

Camille Paglia, Author

"If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them"

Camille Paglia, Author

"I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

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