Kisses And Kissing:

1. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
-- Ingrid Bergman
1915-1982, Swedish-born American Screen, Stage Actress

2. 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 Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

3. Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
-- George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

4. But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
-- John Gay
1688-1732, British Playwright, Poet

5. The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?
-- Ruth Gordon

6. Oh what lies lurk in kisses!
-- Heinrich Heine
1797-1856, German Poet, Journalist

7. The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

8. 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?
-- James Joyce
1882-1941, Irish Author