Sex Quotes

For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.

Gore Vidal

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

George Burns

There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)

If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.

Fran Lebowitz

I know nothing about sex because I was always married.

Zsa Zsa Gabo

Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.

Jimmy Demaret

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

Jackie Onassis

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

Andy Warhol

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Katharine Hepburn

A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.

Elbert Hubbard

Programming is like sex one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.

Michael Sinz

Bisexuality automatically doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

Woody Allen

My dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Most men who are not married by the age of thirty - Five are either homosexual or really smart.

Becky Rodenbeck

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.

Marlene Dietrich

Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.

Joseph Fische

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Lord Chesterfield

Sex is the tabasco sauce which an adolescent national palate sprinkles on every course in the menu.

Mary Day Winn

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Margaret Mead

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

Edmund White

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.

Mark Twain

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.

James Grover Thurbe

There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry. It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

Jane Austen

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.

Marilyn Monroe

Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill - Up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account.

Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future

Someone asked Sophocles, How do you feel now about sex Are you able to have a woman He replied, Hush man most gladly indeed am I rid off it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master.

Sophocles

It is easier to talk about money - - And much easier to talk about sex - - Than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.

Smiley Blanton

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1818

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

R. D. Laing

Continental people have sex - Lives the English have hot - water bottles.

George Mikes

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.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe

Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

Bill Watterson, Calvin in "Calvin and Hobbes".

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Woody Allen

If I ask a woman if she has suffered sexual harassment, could this be considered sexual harassment?

Sally Forth, Jan. 28, 1991

Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.

Karl Kraus

Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances.

Marc Maihueird