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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

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

—Stendhal, 1822

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

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

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

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

—Welsh proverb