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Excessive kissing has been blamed for forgetfulness, among other things. A busy ambassador, trying to combine a diplomatic buss with a bow from the waist, supposedly came up with hand kissing. Energetic Bob Hope has reasoned that ‘‘People who throw kisses are mighty hopelessly lazy.” Not all kisses may be affectionate. In the eyes of H. L. Menchen: “When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.” hor those trying to live on love, advice-to-the-lovelom columnist Dorothy Dix once warned: “Nobody wants to kiss when hungry.”
“A kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt,” according to the Spanish, and “like a day without wine” to the French.
Kissing also may produce an immunity to vice. Arturo Toscanini once revealed: "I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I have never had time for tobacco since.”
But for whatever reason
people pucker up, there is still Dr- Henry Gibbons’ 150year-old definition of a kiss as: “The anatomical jux taposition of two orbiculari: oris muscles in a state o contraction."
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