Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738
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The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborI’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestTo love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbLove is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques Lacan