Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968
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I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestA wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbNothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanSex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborSex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975