By Bill Derby
Have you folks been keeping up with current event news? Bummer. Whether it’s tweet war or continuous bashing of political opponents, decent news reporting is hard to find. I miss you Walter Cronkite.
Today, I was prepared to pontificate on the opinionated TV and internet newsrooms reporting tabloid journalism. But, that would be negative. Just to keep real life in perspective I have decided to change the subject to lust.
I found these romantic, funny and thoughtful quotations of what we humans enjoy as the kiss. Forget the negative and enjoy real human emotions.
• A kiss is something you cannot give without taking and cannot take without giving. – Anonymous
• Kiss till the cow comes home. – Francis Beaumont
• What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? – Robert Browning
• We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel. – Peter De Vries
• Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. – e. e. cummings
• A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. – Ingrid Bergman
• 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. – Christian Nestell Bovee
• You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls. – Robert Browning
• The moment eternal – just that and no more -When ecstasy’s utmost we clutch at the core – While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet! – Robert Browning
• First time he kissed me, he but only kissed-The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of a doubt. – Thomas Carlyle
• …then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.– Agnes de Mille
• That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow. – George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans]
• Is not a kiss the very autograph of love? – Henry Finck
• Never a lip is curved with pain that can’t be kissed into smile again.– Brete Harte
• You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss. – Daniel Heinsius
• You must remember this, a kiss is just a kiss…– Herman Hupfeld
• Now a soft kiss — Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss – John Keats
• A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point.– Mistinguett
• Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet. – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
• A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the “i” in loving; ‘Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear. – Edmond Rostand
• A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth–and endures all the rest. – Helen Rowland
• Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her–when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her? – Helen Rowland
• Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. – Song of Soloman
