A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670
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One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanSex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborNo matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham LincolnThere is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983