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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

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

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

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

—Welsh proverb

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

—Abraham Lincoln

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

—Tacitus, c. 100

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

—Jacques Lacan

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975