The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbNo woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978