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Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

—Stendhal, 1822

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

There is no art without Eros. 

—Max Frisch, 1983

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.

—Welsh proverb

Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist. 

—Jacques Lacan