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Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.

—Welsh proverb

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets. 

—Andy Warhol, 1975

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

There is no art without Eros. 

—Max Frisch, 1983

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist. 

—Jacques Lacan

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972