Love, Romance and You Know What! What is this thing called a kiss? French, tongue, soul, chaste, motherly, fatherly, brotherly, sisterly, ass, genital, Judas, trembling, rough, hesitant, sweet, soft, wet, dying, fevered, good-night, farewell, burning, and chocolate. That's basic punctuation that every woman should know. Mistinguette (attrib.) that first invented kissing. Jonathan Swift a girl to kiss like a beginner. Ladies Home Journal, 1948 where each of you gets a nose in the eye. Clive James "I have, over a period of time, when I have met
her -- as indeed one does -- I have kissed her often
before. We have not done it on a pavement outside
a hotel in Eastbourne before. But we have done it
in various rooms in one way and another at various
functions -- it is perfectly genuine and normal -- and
normal and right-so to do".
but to a man it is the beginning of the end. Helen Rowland the last is begged by the woman. H L Mencken - A Mencken Chrestomathy Heinrich Heine - In, den Kussen welche Luge George Meredith and one who offers the cheek. French Proverb as a rhyme for "bliss." Ambrose Bierce The young woman thought, "Fancy that old General trying to get sweet with Grandma like that … well, she certainly showed him how to mind his manners." Her grandmother thought, "Indeed, the cheek of that young officer kissing my grand-daughter … still, it's good to know she's got some old fashioned principles." The General was thinking, "How do you like that, my Aide steals a kiss, the girl swings, misses him and hits me." And the young Aide said to himself, "Perfect, I kiss the back of my hand, clout the old geezer and get away with it!"
Because in sport he Kr. And so in spite That very night This Mr. Kr. Sr. Anonymous A widow, and stole a few Krs, And the lady, though she was astounded, Said she'd waive prosecution, If he'd make restitution, So the felony soon was compounded. Anonymous And thinking about God and the Devil and all, Other young men have been battling with the days And others have been Kissing the beautiful women. Aldous Huxley Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in! Say I'm weary, say I'm sad Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me. Leigh Hunt vowed that nobody ever had bussed her. But an expert from France took a bilingual chance And the mixture of tongues quite nonplussed her. Conrad Aiken We busse our Wantons, but our Wives we kisse. Robert Herrick With one long kiss my whole soul thro' My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew. Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Fatima And beauty, all concentrating like rays Into one focus, kindled from above; Such kisses as belong to early days, Where heart, and soul, and sense, in concert move, And the blood's lava, and the pulse a blaze, Each kiss a heart-quake-for a kiss's strength, I think, it must be reckoned by its length. Heaven knows how long -- no doubt they never reckoned; And if they had, they could not have secured The sum of their sensations to a second: They had not spoken; but they felt allured, As if their souls and lips each other beckoned, Which, being joined, like swarming bees they clung -- Their hearts the flowers from whence the honey sprung. Lord Byron much heat it destroys germs. S L Katzof they certainly lower resistance. Louise Erickson - in, Reader's Digest, May 1949 And red with a wicked desire. Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855-1919) -- I Love You clink of tooth against tooth! The wonderful curiosity of tongues! Tom Robbins even when it is confined to lips when it merely skims into the mouth. Her lips never touch with their tips alone. Her mouth traps more than your mouth. She sucks your soul plunging to pleasure your whole body's sensation. Rufinus V. 14 Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun. Robert Herrick -- To Anthea: Ah, My Anthea! For thy love is better than wine. Old Testament - The Song of Songs Treatise on Spiritual Friendship |