Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738
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I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborA maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanWhat reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestTo love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverb