Lewis Grizzard
Author, Humorist
"Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing."
Making Love quotes
Making Love
305 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Thomas Merton
Writer, Monk
"Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible."
Marlene Dietrich
Actress, Singer
"In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive."
John Lennon
Musician, Activist
"I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before."
David Lee Roth
Musician
"The perfect woman has an IQ of 150, wants to make love until 4 in the morning, then turns into a pizza!"
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"Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you."
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"Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared."
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"Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl."
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"Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable."
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"When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique."
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"Music should be like making love. Sometimes you want it soft and tender, another time you want it hard and aggressive."
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"Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe."
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"Nothing lasts forever, so what makes love the exception."
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"Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process."
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"Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone."
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"Make love and not war! 'Cause we don't need no trouble. What we need is love To guide and protect us on. If you hope good down from above, Help the weak if you are strong now."
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"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky"
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"It's all good when we making love, all I ask is don't take our love for granted, it's granted."
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"Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end. Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm. There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself."
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"The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest."
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"Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation."
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"Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets."
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"If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka."
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"You can't make love without art."
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"Dying is like making love, except you don't get naseous afterwards."
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