Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968
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To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbOne may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanNo woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham LincolnThe best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborWhat reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387