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* When scolded for masturbating in public, he said "'''I wish it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing my belly.'''" |
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**[[Diogenes Laërtius]], vi. 46, 69 |
**[[Diogenes Laërtius]], vi. 46, 69, quoting [[Diogenes of Sinope]] |
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** Variant: If only it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate. |
** Variant: If only it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate. |
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*** As quoted in ''Encarta Book of Quotations'' (2000) edited by Bill Swainson, p. 274 |
*** As quoted in ''Encarta Book of Quotations'' (2000) edited by Bill Swainson, p. 274 |
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Revision as of 16:23, 14 September 2015
Quotes regarding masturbation, the act of sexual stimulation of one's self.
Quotes
- Don't knock masturbation, it's sex with someone I love.
- If God had intended us not to masturbate, he would've made our arms shorter.
- George Carlin, quoted in Strean Jokes: Their Purpose and Meaning (1993), p. 72.
- When scolded for masturbating in public, he said "I wish it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing my belly."
- Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 46, 69, quoting Diogenes of Sinope
- Variant: If only it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
- As quoted in Encarta Book of Quotations (2000) edited by Bill Swainson, p. 274
- We know that more than seventy to eighty percent of women masturbate, and ninety percent of men masturbate, and the rest lie.
- Joycelyn Elders, "Abstinence", Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (Showtime), 5 June 2006
- You're gonna be pleasing each other, and if he already knows what pleases him, and he's gonna please himself, then why am I in the picture?
- Christine O'Donnell, "IX: The Safest Sex of All", Sex in the 90s (MTV), 1996
- In this room, right now, each of you, in your own lives, has agonized over the fact that you have masturbated. Masturbation isn't sinful. If it feels good — do it. You have my blessing, and you yourself know how it relaxes you.
- Madalyn Murray O'Hair, in an address to Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee, "Fundamentalism" (22 October 1986).
- Self improvement is masturbation.
- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, character of Tyler Durden.
- I didn't get to masturbate this morning, and I've been dying to, so I've gotta go.
- Anna Nicole Smith in the The Anna Nicole Show; Cited in: David Volk (2004) The Tribe Has Spoken: Life Lessons from Reality TV. p. 89
- This is a strange -- and rather alarming -- realisation. For it clearly implies that masturbation is one of our highest faculties that human beings have developed. Many animals masturbate -- but never without the presence of another animal, or some similar stimulus. A human being can masturbate in an empty room: a triumph of pure imagination.
- Colin Wilson in The Misfits , p. 90.
