Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbOne may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972