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Sages on Sex: Quips and Quotes for the New Year

"I'm as pure as the driven slush."

"My wife has cut our lovemaking to down to once a month. But I don't mind. I know two guys she's cut out entirely."
--Rodney Dangerfield

"Chains require. Whips optional."
--A highway sign in California, slightly modified.

"My friends are so horny, they'll make love to anything that moves. But I never saw any reason to limit myself."
--Emo Philips

"The act of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive that if it were not for pent-up impulses and the beauty of the human face, Nature would lose the human species."
--Leonardo DaVinci

"I discovered a new oral contraceptive. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said no."
--Woody Allen

"Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry."
--Unknown

"I used to be a virgin, but I gave it up. No money in it."
--Phyllis Diller

"Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn."
--Garrison Kiellor

"Marital sex is like a savings account. You put it in. You take it out. You lose interest."
--Professor Irwin Corey

"Chaste makes waste."
--Unknown

"Get in good physical condition before attempting bondage. You should be fit to be tied."
--Robert Byrne

"I know of nothing that brings the manly mind down from spiritual heights than a woman's caresses."
--St. Augustine

"It's been so long since I had sex, I can't even recall who gets tied up."
--Joan Rivers

"I used to be Snow White, but I drifted."
--Mae West

"Tumescence is the period between pubescence and senescence."
--Robert Byrne

"A man is as young as the woman he feels."
--Variously ascribed

"Familiarity breeds attempt."
--Goodman Ace

"The man's desire is for the woman. But the woman's desire is for the desire of the man."
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"If it weren't for pickpockets, I wouldn't have any sex life at all."
--Rodney Dangerfield

"I find that a woman is occasionally a serviceable substitute for masturbation."
--Karl Kraus

"The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment."
--Malcolm Muggeridge

"What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she looks without them."
--Brendan Francis

"I like a man who takes his time."
--Mae West.

"Sex is the biggest nothing of all time."
--Andy Warhol

"The problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, but only enough blood to run one at a time."
--Robin Williams

"Sex drive: A physical craving that begins in adolescence and ends at marriage."
--Robert Byrne

"I kissed my girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco ever since."
--Arturo Toscanini

"I'm as pure as the driven slush."
--Tallulah Bankhead

"What is it men in women do require? Gratified desire.
What is it women in men do require? Gratified desire."
--William Blake

"Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right."
--Woody Allen

"I know nothing about sex. I've always been married."
--Zsa Zsa Gabor



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San Francisco journalist Michael Castleman, M.A., has written about sexuality for 36 years. He publishes GreatSexAfter40.com

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