Kisses and Kissing
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- Oh what lies lurk in kisses!
- A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.
- The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle, complimentary way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.
- It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
- There used to be two kinds of kisses. First when girls were kissed and deserted; second, when they were engaged. Now there's a third kind, where the man is kissed and deserted. If Mr. Jones of the nineties bragged he'd kissed a girl, everyone knew he was through with her. If Mr. Jones of 1919 brags the same everyone knows it's because he can't kiss her any more. Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.
- A kiss may ruin a human life.
- When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.
- May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
- The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
- What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?
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