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A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

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

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

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

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

—Stendhal, 1822

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972