A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham LincolnLord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborI’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestTo love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbNo woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques Lacan