A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanLord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham LincolnSex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbA wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972