Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738
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Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanOnce a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham LincolnI’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestSex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968