Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestNo woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387