"Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old; Some strangle with the hands of Lust, Some with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon grow cold. Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die."
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"A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion."
"I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me."
"Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword"
"A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil."
"He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms."
"The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn."
"Purple Haze all in my brain, lately things don't seem the same. Actin' funny but I don't know why. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky."
"Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt."
"Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before...and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing in the world."
"I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing."
"This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled."
"You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest."
"My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder It's never over, all my riches for her smiles when I slept so soft against her... It's never over, All my blood for the sweetness of her laughter... It's never over, She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever."
"For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands."
"Blondes have the hottest kisses. Red-heads are fair-to-middling torrid, and brunettes are the frigidest of all. It's something to do with hormones, no doubt."
"A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do."
"Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you."
"Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good-night."
"What if one of the core elements of a radical Christianity lay in a demand that we betray it, while the ultimate act of affirming God required the forsaking of God? And what if fidelity to the Judeo-Christian scriptures demanded their renunciation? In short, what if the only way of finding faith involved betraying it with a kiss?"