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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

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

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

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

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

—Abraham Lincoln

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387