There is the kiss of welcome and of parting; the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise, and the receipt of fulfilment. Is it strange, therefore, that a woman is invincible, whose armory consists of kisses, smiles, and tears? -Thomas C. Haliburton

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender. -Emil Ludwig

Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other. -Rene Yasenek

A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one. -Guy de Maupassant

What is a kiss? Alacke! at worst, A single Dropp to quenche a Thirst, Tho' oft it proves in happie Hour - The first sweete Dropp of one long showre. -Charles Godfrey Leland, In the Old Time

A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses. -H. L. Mencken

I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight -Ernest Hemingway

Blush, happy maiden, when you feel
The lips which press love's glowing seal;
But as the slow years darklier roll,
Grown wiser, the experienced soul
Will own as dearer far than they
The lips which kiss the tears away. -Elizabeth Akers Allen (Florence Percy), Kisses

Remember the Viper:--'twas close at your feet,
How you started and threw yourself into my arms;
Not a strawberry there was so ripe nor so sweet
As the lips which I kiss'd to subdue your alarms. -Robert Bloomfield, Nancy

Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, --these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss. -Christian Nestell Bovee