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Quotes

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

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

—Stendhal, 1822

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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

There is no art without Eros. 

—Max Frisch, 1983

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.

—Welsh proverb

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387