Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbOne may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476