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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. 

—Abraham Lincoln

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

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

—Jacques Lacan

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

—Tacitus, c. 100

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

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

—Welsh proverb

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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387