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Quotes About Desire

Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any
~ John Callahan
Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody got tired of her
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The newer people, of this modern age, are more eager to amass than to realize.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
~ Gore Vidal
You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attendance upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?
~ William Butler Yeats
I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.
~ William Shakespeare
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
~ William Shakespeare
There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
~ Samuel Johnson
Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
~ William Shakespeare
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.
~ Joe Gores
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
~ Salvador Dali
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
~ Mark Twain
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
~ Robert Frost
To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
~ Unknown
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
~ Bette Davis
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope is the dream of the waking man.
~ Aristotle
I believe that sex is the most beautiful, natural, and wholesome thing that money can buy.
~ Steve Martin
Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
~ John Barrymore
Sex is like art. Most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range.
~ Unknown
I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?
~ Bette Midler