To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverb
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One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476