Quotes About Intimacy

Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours.

You know you've reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh.

Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.

My wife thinks I'm too nosy. At least that's what she writes in her diary.

A husband is what is left of a lover after the nerve has been extracted.

There is nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

Marriage is the deep deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise longue.

There is a radicalism in all getting and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical while marriage is conservative.

A simple enough pleasure surely to have breakfast alone with one's husband but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

I ain't afraid to love a man.

A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.

Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.

I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

A man can please his wife with a box of candy, surprise her with a bouquet of flowers, and make her suspicious with a gold bracelet.

The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

I judge how much a man cares for a woman by the space he allots her under a jointly shared umbrella.

I love to go to the doctor. Where else would a man look at me and say, 'Take off your clothes'?