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—Mae West
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Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbA maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924Sex: 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 LacanI know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborLord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968