A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822
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One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverb