'Men are a luxury': Best quotes on love and sex

With Valentine's Day around the corner, we bring you some of the cutest, funniest (and some outrageous) things said about love and sex.

Boys in their twenties are a waste of time. They have nothing to offer conversationally.

- Megan Fox

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

- Marilyn Monroe

I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now'.

- Conan O'Brien

Love is a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that's been important to you. It's actually not all that pleasurable. I don't know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can't bear an hour without somebody's company.

- Colin Firth

The feelings that we equate with love -- feeling sick, feeling insecure, not eating -- that's just lust getting in the way. It's your ego saying, 'I want to get laid' and 'I hope she likes me more than I like her'. Love is something that should be there in 20 years' time.

- Simon Cowell

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

- Bette Davis

Men are a luxury. Not a necessity.

Men should be like Kleenex...soft, strong, disposable.

- Cher

As long as you know most men are like children, you know everything.

- Coco Chanel

If you're lying in bed next to someone who really doesn't make you feel like the goddess that you are, you need to rediscover what it is that you truly want and need.

- Lady Gaga

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?

- Bette Midler

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

- Zsa Zsa Gabor

If you want to read about love and marriage you've got to buy two separate books.

- Alan King

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

- Alanis Morissette

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.

- Albert Einstein

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

- Billy Crystal