When pursued by a satyr, always make sure you are caught near the softest available moss.
Kerry Greenwood (b. 1954) Australian author and lawyer
Phryne Fisher, Book 15, Death by Water, ch. 15 (2005)
(Source)
A quip Phryne recalls once making.
Quotations about:
having sex
Note not all quotations have been tagged, so Search may find additional quotes on this topic.
IAGO: I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English dramatist and poet
Othello, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 129ff (1.1.129-131) (1603)
(Source)
Speaking to Desdemona's father, the senator Brabantio. Earliest recorded use of "beast with two backs" in English; though Rabelais used it in Gargantua and Pantagruel (c. 1532), but that is not known to have been translated to English until the late 17th Century. (More info here).
