What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972
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Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborThere is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbSex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanOnce a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924