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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

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

—Welsh proverb

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

—Abraham Lincoln

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

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

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

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

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670