Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738
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What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbA wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborLove is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924