Sex Quotes

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)

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

Jackie Onassis

Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

John Barrymore

Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

Aldous Huxley

The only unnatural sexual act is that which you cannot perform.

Alfred Kinsey

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

Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.

Karl Kraus

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

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

Becky Rodenbeck

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes, because there is too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Henry Kissinge

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

Katharine Hepburn

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Woody Allen

The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada.

Lorne Bloch

Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.

Woody Allen

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

For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.

Gore Vidal

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.

Gore Vidal

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

Mary Day Winn

The mind is not sex - Typed.

Margaret Mead

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.

Dick Brandon

My own belief is that 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

Is sex dirty? Only if you do it right.

Woody Allen

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

Marilyn Monroe

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

Steve Martin

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

Marquis de Sade

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

Andy Warhol

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

Jimmy Demaret

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

Voltaire

For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

Quentin Crisp

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

Lord Chesterfield

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences suicide. Or murder.

Susan Sontag

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

R. D. Laing

I know nothing about sex because I was always married.

Zsa Zsa Gabo

Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons.

Anonymous, Letter to the Editor, The Advocate

If male homosexuals are called gay, then female homosexuals should be called ecstatic.

Shelly Roberts

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

Gore Vidal