Caress Quote by Publilius Syrus Download Open image “Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.” — Publilius Syrus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Caress Compulsion Seduction Venus Yield
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections, as leaves are to the life of trees. If… — Gaby Copy Share Image
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree.… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Aphrodite-Venus had become not a subject of adoration, but an agent of exploitation. From the moment Christian society perceived sex not as a gift… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
In Lucretius, sexual desire is considered real and genuine, whereas love is illusory. Venus, the goddess who represents the power of sexual desire, is… — Paul Ludwig Landsberg Copy Share Image
“Compulsion: noun, mass noun; an ability possessed by certain Que Cum Virtute Judicium (Virts) to force someone to do something or create an irresistible… — Alex Lane Copy Share Image
Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“The touching of nature is, to me, more than a satisfying of my curiosity. It is the source of my wonder. Any one species… — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
“When bodies talk, a hand brushing across a face declares love the tongue never speaks. When bodies talk, eyes make promises and lips keep… — Stella Payton Copy Share Image
“The caress of each word becoming one with the page. Twisting beneath the touch of the pen, forming a trail of permanent kisses, until… — N'Zuri Za Austin Copy Share Image
Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“There are people in the world, who are just wrong, and then there are the masses of population that are right, or at the… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
May the bird of paradise fly up your nose, may an elephant caress you with his toes, may your wife be plagued with runners… — Little' Jimmy Dickens Copy Share Image
Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have no power… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. Become a stranger to need of pity. Or if compassion be freely given out, take only enough. Stop… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
A bomb makes more noise than a caress, but for each bomb that destroys, there are millions of caresses that nourish life. — Facundo Cabral Copy Share Image
I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one… — Voltaire Copy Share Image