The decision to kiss for the first time ....

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

Is not a kiss the very autograph of love?
~ Henry Finck

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 receipt of fulfillment.
~ Thomas C. Haliburotn (1796-1865)-

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 (1580-1655)-

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

Give me a kiss, add 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

I dare not ask a kiss;
I dare not beg a smile;
Lest having that or this,
I might grow proud the while.

No, no, the utmost share
Of my desire shall be
Only to kiss that air,
That lately kissed thee.
~ Robert Herrick

You must remember this, a kiss is just a kiss...
~ Herman Hupfeld


She press'd his hand in slumber; so once more
He could not help but kiss her and adore.
~ John Keats

Now a soft kiss -- Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss
~ John Keats

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was--like eating an egg without salt.
~ Rudyard Kipling