Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738
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To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbLove is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968