To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverb
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Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborOne may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham Lincoln