A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670
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Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanSex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa Gabor