Why It's Important for Him to Be a Good Kisser

My last article was 13 ways to spark up your dull life, and here are 13 more tips -- to add more kissing to your days and nights.

One study in evolutionary psychology says that what most of us call a "good kisser" is just our unconscious telling us who is the better bet to mate and procreate with. Way to discount the magic!

Another well-known study quoted in Psychology Today by Dr. Horan says that kissing has unexpected benefits to our health - including your heart!

Specifically, over the six-week period, individuals who increased their frequency of kissing reported both lower levels of stress and higher levels of relationship satisfaction. And importantly, their physiological assessments of cholesterol, via blood draws, also decreased.

Learning to kiss is an ongoing project, if you are seeing multiple people...or want your one relationship to sing. It all begins with intent. And these 13 quotations on the how and why of kissing guarantee that you will want to kiss some lucky person immediately...maybe tonight.

• For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. ~Judy Garland
• How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. ~Victor Hugo
• Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
• Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley
• A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know. ~Mistinguett (Jeanne Bourgeois)
• Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss. ~Robert Burns
• Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed. ~William Shakespeare
• One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence. ~Karen Marie Moning
• The sunlight claps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me? ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Their lips were four red roses on a stalk, Which in their summer beauty kiss’d each other. ~Shakespeare.
• A pleasing trembling thrills through all my blood Whene’er you touch me with your melting hand; But when you kiss, oh! ’tis not to be spoke. ~Gildon.
• How she felt when he kissed her—like a tub of roses swimming in honey, cologne, nutmeg and blackberries. —Samuel Sullivan Cox
• Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open. ~Agnes de Mille

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And get cracking on that great kissing.