Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing. — Richard Harris Barham Copy Share Image
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
If she’s out here and not locked up in the barracks, I’ll know,” he said. He took a deep breath and whistled.… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I loved taking off. In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide - sometimes from… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each… — Marie Stopes Copy Share Image
Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
O subtle love! a thousand wiles thou hast, by humble suit, by service, or by hire, to win a maiden's hold,--a thing… — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
“What is wrong with the [tale of] Two Swords?" he asked, even more surprised. "Don't you care for it?" "There is too… — Lynn Kurland Copy Share Image
Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If I really wanted to have a boyfriend. I can get one. If I really wanted a girlfriend. I can get one.… — Tahj Wilson Copy Share Image
The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart, And press a suit with passion, Is not a woman's part.… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“There are many fish in the sea, but never let a good one swim away.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair. Wha does the utmost that he can Will whyles do mair. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
