Quotes

Quotes

Quotes to inspire and reflect

Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension, but football, basketball, and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

One should always play fairly…when one has the winning cards.

An Ideal Husband

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Bob Hope
Bob Hope
If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.

Lady Windermere’s Fan

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Woody Allen
Woody Allen
I sold the memoirs of my sex life to a publisher—they are going to make a board game out of it.
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Woody Allen
Woody Allen
I think that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five it’s fantastic.
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Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
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Woody Allen
Woody Allen
The only time my wife and I had a simultaneous orgasm was when the judge signed the divorce papers.
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Anatole France
Anatole France
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Mae West
Mae West
I’m the girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.
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Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende
For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.
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Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Diller
His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

The Importance of Being Earnest

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Mae West
Mae West
I feel like a million tonight—but one at a time.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

They say all lovers swear more performance than they are able.

Troilus and Cressida

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Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson
When turkeys mate they think of swans.
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Woody Allen
Woody Allen
My brain—that’s my second favorite organ.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Virginity breeds mites, much like a cheese.

All’s Well That Ends Well

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Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Diller
There’s a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what’s the problem?
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Woody Allen
Woody Allen
Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don’t have a good partner, you’d better have a good hand.
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Mae West
Mae West

Let’s forget the six feet and talk about the seven inches.

in Myra Breckinridge

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Zsa Zsa Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Personally, I know nothing about sex because I’ve always been married.
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Woody Allen
Woody Allen
The difference between sex and death is, with death you can do it alone and nobody’s going to make fun of you.
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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
My girlfriend always laughs during sex—no matter what she’s reading.
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Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Diller
I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives 40 miles away.
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Tallulah Bankhead
Tallulah Bankhead
I’ll come and make love to you at five o’clock. If I’m late, start without me.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

I prefer women with a past. They’re always so damned amusing to talk to.

Lady Windermere’s Fan

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Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin

and the Beatles’ first LP.

“Annus Mirabilis”

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Mae West
Mae West
A hard man’s good to find—but you’ll mostly find him asleep.
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Woody Allen
Woody Allen
Remember, if you smoke after sex you’re doing it too fast.
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Bette Midler
Bette Midler
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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Woody Allen
Woody Allen

Sex alleviates tension and love causes it.

in A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy

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Woody Allen
Woody Allen

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty.

in Crimes and Misdemeanors

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Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers
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 on bunk beds.
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Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe

I had the radio on.

when asked if she really had nothing on during a photo shoot

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Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Diller
A terrible thing happened to me last night again—nothing.
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Woody Allen
Woody Allen
I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Woody Allen
Woody Allen
Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you get between the right man and the right woman.
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Mae West
Mae West

When I’m good, I’m very, very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better.

in I’m No Angel

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Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers
It’s so long since I’ve had sex, I’ve forgotten who ties up whom.
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Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett

Let me pray to God…The bastard! He doesn’t exist.

Endgame

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Bob Hope
Bob Hope
I do benefits for all religions—I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
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Woody Allen
Woody Allen
I’m really a timid person—I was beaten up by Quakers.
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Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce

Heaven, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.

The Devil’s Dictionary

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Has anyone noticed that in heaven all the interesting men are missing?
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Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce
Because I’m Jewish, a lot of people ask why I killed Christ. What can I say? It was an accident. It was one of those parties that got out of hand.
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Woody Allen
Woody Allen
I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
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