To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverb
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Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques Lacan