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Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

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

—Welsh proverb

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

—Stendhal, 1822

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

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

—Tacitus, c. 100

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

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476