The Little Retreat Quotes: Friendship,
Love, Sex, Women,
Men
God created sex. Priests created marriage.
Voltaire
Life is a sexually transmitted disease with 100% lethality.
Unknown
I have been told that in order to reach inner peace and
eternal happiness I have to resolve to find myself, to be what I am, to
realize my authentic self. I am not sure what to do with this advice,
because if it is true, I would have to resolve to become a slut.
Unknown Female Philosopher
Anyone who doesn't have a mistress is a nincompoop.
Francis I of France
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to
women who make advances to them.
Walter Bagehot
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without
wanting to be.
Brigitte Bardot
Variety is the spice of life.
Unknown
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself
second; with a husband it runs the other way.
Honore de Balzac
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man
whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
Joseph Conrad
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H.L. Mencken
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H.L. Mencken
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man,
and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
Helen Rowland
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least
one woman.
Honore de Balzac
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he
will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates
Keep telling a woman that she is unique if you want to get
from her what you can get from any woman.
Some lucky fat guy
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as
female warriors; but they are seldom or never inventors.
Voltaire
Women in dual-earner households are gaining in job status and earnings ... giving them more clout at work and at home.
Sue Shellenbarger
Women right after fourteen years are called ladies by the
men.
Therefore seeing that there is nothing else for them, but only to sleep
with men, they begin to beautify themselves and in this put all hopes.
So it is valuable to make sure they understand that they are honored
for nothing else than to appear orderly and modest.
Epictetus
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer
than love.
Charles Peguy
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his
fault.
Walter Bagehot
You can only really be friends with someone when you're
really angry at the rest of the world with them.
NA
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no
particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance
that flatters our self-love.
William Hazlitt
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
Socrates
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too
much fraternizing with the enemy.
Henry Kissinger
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more
frequent.
Friedrich Nietzsche