I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae West
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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham LincolnSex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbLove is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanNo woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978