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Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

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

—Jacques Lacan

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. 

—Abraham Lincoln

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

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets. 

—Andy Warhol, 1975

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387

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

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706