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One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

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

—Stendhal, 1822

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

—Tacitus, c. 100

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387

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

—Abraham Lincoln

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

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

—Jacques Lacan

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978