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COURTSHIP
1. Essence
255 Courtship - A man pursuing a woman until she catches him.
Anonymous
258 Charm is the measure of attraction's power
To chain the fleeting fancy of the hour.
Louisa Thomas (b. 1865)
"What is Charm?"
260 Flirt: a woman who thinks it's every man for herself.
Anonymous
2. Opposites
261 She was always pleased to have him come
and never sorry to see him go.
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
"Big Blonde" Pt. II
263 The game women play is men.
Adam Smith (1723-1790)
264 By keeping men off, you keep them on.
Gay (1688-1732)
265 Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by
blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
269 Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
"Chant for Dark Hours," Ballade of a Great Weariness
3. Insight
272 Men like to pursue an elusive woman, like a cake of wet soap
in a bathtub - even men who hate baths.
Gelett Burgess (1866-1951)
277 What woman says to fond lover should be written on air
or the swift water.
Catullus (B.C. 84?-54?)
Carmina. LXX 3.
284 When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart,
it is a pretty certain sign that she has his.
George D. Prentice (1802-1870)
4. Positive
289 Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an
Amour!
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
292 She is pretty to walk with,
And witty to talk with,
And pleasant, too, to think on.
John Suckling (1609-1642)
The Brennoralt
295 Son, when thou art old it will please thee more to remember
the duties thou hast NEGLECTED for love of women, than all
thine honors.
Gelett Burgess (1866-1951)
The Maxims of Methuselah
5. Negative
298 What lies lurk in kisses.
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
300 For though I know he loves me
Tonight my heart is sad
His kiss was not so wonderful
As all the dreams I had.
Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
301 The adoration of his heart had been to her only as the
perfume of a wild flower, which she had carelessly crushed
with her foot in passing.
Longfellow (1819-1892)
302 The time I've lost in wooing,
In watching and pursuing
The light that lies
in woman's eyes,
Has been my heart's undoing.
Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
The Time I've Lost in Wooing
304 Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get
rid of the rest of her.
John Vanbrugh (1666-1726)
The Relapse II
306 Many a girl has gotten into trouble by obeying that
boyological urge.
Katharine Brush (born 1893)
310 When billing and cooing results in matrimony,
the billing always comes after the cooing.
Tom Masson (1866-1934)
6. Advice
311 An absence, the decline of a dinner invitation, an
unintentional coldness, can accomplish more than all
the cosmetics and beautiful dresses in the world.
Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
312 Women who sway men are like the sea, full of moods,
changeful, hard to fathom, never twice the same and
often quite as treacherous.
Minna Antrim (fl. 1900)
Naked Truths and Veiled Illusions
313 He that would win his dame, must do
As Love does when he draws his bow;
With one hand thrust the lady from,
And with the other pull her home.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
Hudibras
324 My son, wouldst thou flatter women? I counsel thee,
avoid generalities; say NOT unto her: Thou art fair, my
love, thou rejoicest my heart with thy comeliness,
But let thy words be DEFINITE, go thou into details,
for this will cause her joy;
Say unto her: Love, thy nostrils are proud, they show
thy caste; and thine ear is like a seashell. How cunning
are the tips of thy fingers, and the line of thine eyebrows,
naught can match it.
Gelett Burgess (1866-1951)
The Maxims of Methuselah
329 Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
Marcel Achard (b. 1900)
339 The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
Mae West (1893?-1980)
The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West
343 "Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked.
"Wherever one wants to be kissed," I said.
Coco Chanel (1883-1971)
Coco Chanel, Her Life, Her Secrets by Marcel Haedrich
7. Poetry & Prose
347 Talk to me tenderly, tell me lies;
I am a woman and time flies.
Vivian Yeiser Laramore (b. 1891)
"Talk to Me Tenderly"
348 She might struggle like a fly in a web. He wrapped
her around and around with beautiful sentences.
Mary Catherwood (1847-1901)
Marianson, Mackinac and Lake Stories "The King of Beaver"
353 Once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul thro'
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
Fatima
354 I love your lips when they're wet with wine
And red with a wicked desire.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855-1919)
"I Love You," St. 1
356 The heart of a man to the heart of a maid -
Light of my tents, be fleet -
Morning awaits at the end of the world,
And the world is all at our feet.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Gypsy Trail
366 ...And whilst I was in the act of framing my excuse to the
lady, Life seized me and threw me into her arms as a sailor
throws a scrap of fish into the mouth of a seabird.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Man and Superman
8. Jokes & Humor
369 Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
Best Quotations for All Occasions
371 Men do make passes at girls who wear glasses -
but it all depends on their frames.
Optician
Quoted in: The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
372 The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the
first female reptile, implying in a subtle, complimentary
way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had
for dinner the night before.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
373 HE: I'd like to marry your daughter.
FATHER: Have you seen my wife yet?
HE: Yes, I have. But I prefer your daughter.
Anonymous
382 He doesn't want to take a girl out and do things -
he'd rather take her in and undo things.
Anonymous
SEX
1. Essence
1107 Wild Nature's vigor working at the root.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
1112 Sex - the poor man's polo.
Clifford Odets (1903-1963)
1114 Sex is the tabasco sauce which an adolescent national
palate sprinkles on every course in the menu.
Mary Day Winn (1888-1965)
Adam's Rib
2. Opposites
1115 Women complain about sex more than men. Their gripes fall
into two major categories: (1) Not enough. (2) Too much.
Ann Landers (b. 1918)
1116 When women go wrong, men go right after them.
Mae West (1893?-1980)
1117 A woman tries to get all she can out of a man,
and a man tries to get all he can into a woman.
Isaac Goldberg (1887-1938)
1119 The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and
cry. If I have to cry I think of my sex life. If I have to
laugh, I think of my sex life.
Glenda Jackson (b. 1936)
3. Insight
1124 On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears
infinite.
Jean Rostand
Journal d'un Caractere
1127 Any man who says he doesn't desire to have sex with a woman
he thinks is attractive is lying.
Corbin Bernsen (b. 1954)
1128 Everybody lies about sex.
Robert Heinlein (b. 1907)
1129 The only people who make love all the time are liars.
Telly Savalas (b. 1924)
1140 Men 30 to 39 years old think about sex every 15 minutes.
After 40, the frequency drops to once every half hour.
Men's Health Magazine (1990)
1145 Conventional sexual intercourse is like squirting jam into
a donut.
Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
1146 Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual
intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
1156 Sex is the great amateur art. The professional, male or
female, is frowned upon. He or she misses the whole point
and spoils the show.
David Cort (b. 1904)
1158 Love is like linen - often changed, the sweeter.
Phineas Fletcher (1584-1650)
Sicelides III.v
1162 If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others,
they would no longer be fantasies.
Fran Lebowitz
1165 If you put a nickel in a jar every time you make love during
the first year of your relationship and then afterwards take
a nickel out every time you make love, the chances are you
will never get all your nickels out.
Anonymous
Quoted in: A Dictionary of Love, Edited by Gil Friedman
4. Positive
1167 If your life at night is good,
you think you have everything.
Euripides (B.C. 480-406)
Medea
1170 It requires far more genius to make love than to command
armies.
Ninon de Lenclos (1620-1705)
(ascribed)
1174 Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation...
Henry Miller (1891-1980)
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
1177 A healthy sex life. Best thing in the world
for a woman's voice.
Leontyne Price (b. 1927)
1178 I am convinced that happy, guiltless, and lusty
intercourse stimulates the circulation and digestion,
gets all the glands going, and is the best physical
medicine in the world.
Alan Watts (1915-1973)
5. Negative
1182 Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
1183 To me the term "sexual freedom" meant freedom from having to
have sex.
Jane Wagner
Quoted in: The Quotable Quote Book
1184 Extra-marital sex is as overrated as pre-marital sex.
And marital sex, come to think of it.
Simon Gray
Two Sundays (BBC TV, 1975)
1185 All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical
pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
1187 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 (1874-1965)
1195 And the world's shrunken to a heap
Of hot flesh straining on a bed.
E. R. Dodds (1893-1979)
1203 Sex is bad for one - but it's good for two.
Graffito
BBC Radio4, Quote Unquote
6. Advice
1216 Sex ought to be a wholly satisfying link between two
affectionate people from which they emerge unanxious,
rewarded and ready for more.
Alex Comfort (b. 1920)
The Joy of Sex
1218 You mustn't force sex to do the work of love
or love to do the work of sex.
Mary McCarthy
The Group
1221 Seamed stockings aren't subtle but they certainly do the
job. You shouldn't wear them when out with someone you're
not prepared to sleep with, since their presence is
tantamount to saying, "Hi there, big fellow, please rip
my clothes off at your earliest opportunity." If you
really want your escort paralytic with lust, stop frequently
to adjust the seams
Cynthia Heimel
Sex Tips for Girls, 1983
7. Poetry & Prose
1224 From the desert I come to thee,
On a stallion shod with fire;
And the winds are left behind
In the speed of my desire.
Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)
Bedouin Song
1225 License my roving hands, and let them go,
Before, behind, between, above, below.
John Donne (1572-1631)
To His Mistress Going to Bed
1227 A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a
tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake.
Elinor Glyn (1864-1943)
Three Weeds
1228 Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame:
Each to his passion; what's in a name?
Helen Hunt Jackson (1831-1885)
Vanity of Vanities
8. Jokes & Humor
1236 She's descended from a long line her mother listened to.
Gypsy Rose Lee (1914-1970)
1237 I thought oral contraception was when you talked your way
out of it.
Anonymous
overheard, quoted Peterborough, Daily Telegraph (1970)
1242 When turkeys mate they think of swans.
Johnny Carson (b. 1925)
1246 (On baseball players who break curfew:) It ain't getting it
that hurts them, it's staying up all night looking for it.
They got to learn that if you don't get it by midnight, you
ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.
Casey Stengel (1890?-1975)
quoted in Robert Creamer's, Stengel
1247 After participating in an orgy and being invited back the
very next night, Voltaire declined with the following
explanation: "Once, a philosopher, twice, a pervert!"
Quoted in: A Curmudgeon's Garden of Love by Jon Winokur
1257 As I look around the West End these days, it seems to me
that outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.
Katharine Whitehorn
1259 I respond to most appeals but my favorite charity is still
the Sex Drive.
From: 2400 Jokes to Brighten Your Speeches, by R. Orben
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