Kissing (and Bussing)
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.Gilbert Sorrentino - Mulligan's Stew
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A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation mark!
That's basic punctuation that every woman should know.
Mistinguette (attrib.)
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Lord! I wonder what fool it was
that first invented kissing.
Jonathan Swift
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It takes a lot of experience for
a girl to kiss like a beginner.
Ladies Home Journal, 1948
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We did one of those quick, awkward kisses
where each of you gets a nose in the eye.
Clive James
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When both William Whitelaw and Margaret Thatcher were candidates for the Conservative leadership in 1975. they both arrived in Eastbourne to attend the National Young Conservatives' conference. He met her and he kissed her. This called for explanation, and he duly gave it:
"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".
The Observer (9 Feb. 1975)
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To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning
but to a man it is the beginning of the end.
Helen Rowland
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The first kiss is stolen by the man;
the last is begged by the woman.
H L Mencken - A Mencken Chrestomathy
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Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
Heinrich Heine - In, den Kussen welche Luge
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Kissing don't last; cookery do.
George Meredith
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In love there is always one who kisses
and one who offers the cheek.
French Proverb
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A word invented by the poets
as a rhyme for "bliss."
Ambrose Bierce
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A wife cooed to her husband, "Margaret told me today that her husband George kisses her twenty times a day … why don't you do that?" "George might beat me up!" was the reply.
Source unknown
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Using his Irish blarney, Paddy bet a pretty girl a shilling he could kiss her without touching her. As soon as she had accepted his bet the girl found herself locked in a passionate embrace. At length Paddy disengaged, and then produced his shilling with a contented sigh, "It was worth every penny."
Source unknown
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A story is told of a General travelling with his young Aide-de-Cap. They seated themselves opposite an elderly lady and her beautiful grand-daughter in a compartment of an express passenger train. Shortly after the train entered a dark tunnel, other passengers in the compartment heard a kiss followed by a loud slap, then the train rushed out into the light again.
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!"
Source unknown
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She frowned and called him Mr.
Because in sport he Kr.
And so in spite
That very night
This Mr. Kr. Sr.
Anonymous
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A rogue met a pretty young Mrs,
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
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While I have been fumbling over books
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
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Jenny kissed me when we met,
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
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A delectable girl from Augusta
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
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Kissing and bussing differ in this --
We busse our Wantons, but our Wives we kisse.
Robert Herrick
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He moved his lips about her ears and neck as though in thirsting search of an erogenous zone. A waste of time, he knew from experience. Erogenous zones were either everywhere or nowhere.
Joseph Heller
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Once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul thro'
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Fatima
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A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love,
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.
By length, I mean duration, theirs endured
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
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A genuine kiss generates so
much heat it destroys germs.
S L Katzof
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Kisses may not spread germs, but
they certainly lower resistance.
Louise Erickson -
in, Reader's Digest, May 1949
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I love your lips when they're wet with wine
And red with a wicked desire.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855-1919) -- I Love You
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No other flesh like lip flesh! No meat like mouth meat! The musical
clink of tooth against tooth! The wonderful curiosity of tongues!
Tom Robbins
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This girl's kiss is so sweet
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
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Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score;
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!
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Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth:
For thy love is better than wine.
Old Testament - The Song of Songs
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In a kiss, two spirits meet, mingle and become one; and as a result there arises in the mind a wonderful feeling of delight that awakens and binds together the love of them that kiss.
St Aelred of Rievaulx --
Treatise on Spiritual Friendship
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The soul is kissed by God when she is raised above all earthly things, and only beholdeth the countenance of God; then God inclineth His countenance and kisseth her and His kissing is nothing else than a union of love with love.
John Tauler
