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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

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

—Stendhal, 1822

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

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

—Welsh proverb

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387

Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist. 

—Jacques Lacan

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

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

—Tacitus, c. 100

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

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975