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Quotes

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

There is no art without Eros. 

—Max Frisch, 1983

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

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

—Abraham Lincoln

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

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

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

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

—Tacitus, c. 100