Kiss

Kiss

A kiss is the act of pressing one's lips against the lips or other body parts of another person or of an object. Cultural connotations of kissing vary widely. Depending on the culture and context, a kiss can express sentiments of love, passion, affection, respect, greeting, friendship and good luck, among many others. In some situations a kiss is a ritual, formal or symbolic gesture indicating devotion, respect or greeting, as in the case of spouses kissing at the conclusion of a wedding ceremony or national leaders kissing each other in greeting, and in many other situations.

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Famous quotes containing the word kiss:

    I would go fifty miles on foot, for I have not a horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author’s hands,—be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore.
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    The New Right: kiss the bankers and spank the babies.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    In any man who dies there dies with him,
    his first snow and kiss and fight ...
    Not people die but worlds die in them.
    Yevgeny Yevtushenko (b. 1933)