Poets on Masturbating

Masturbating is never finished, only abandoned. ~Paul Valéry

Masturbating is the language in which man explores his own amazement. ~Christopher Fry

Even when masturbating has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out.... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. ~A.E. Housman

Perhaps no person can be a masturbator, or can even enjoy masturbating, without a certain unsoundness of mind. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay

You will find masturbation nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. ~Joseph Joubert

I've done some masturbating I don't understand myself. ~Carl Sandburg

Science is for those who learn; masturbating, for those who know. ~Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest

Masturbating comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did. ~Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe

Masturbating is all that is worth remembering in life. ~William Hazlitt



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