Intercourse Quotes

178 quotes by 141 authors

The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all… — Yo-Yo Ma
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. — Richard M. Nixon
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and… — Bertrand Russell
The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt. — John Ralston Saul
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. — Henry David Thoreau
It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation;… — Thomas Mann
Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing. — Muriel Spark
What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse. — Henry Miller
Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting,… — Mark Twain
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining… — Thomas Paine
Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for. — Vladimir Nabokov
Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing… — Robert A. Heinlein
This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of human… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Sexual intercourse vests no property rights. — Spider Robinson
I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual… — Robert A. Heinlein
It was cold autumn weather, but in spite of the cold they wandered up and down the roads of the Park for nearly three hours.… — James Joyce
Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged… — Muriel Barbery
Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to… — Alice Sebold

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