To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverb
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982