A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962