"They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake." — Alexander Pope

More Courtship Quotes

This quote is filed under Courtship Quotes, one of 98 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship. — Joseph Addison
• On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak… — David Lack
• There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try… — Erica Jong
• I think people can handle 150 to 200 miles a week. But something has to give somewhere. If he's a… — Bill Bowerman
• Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman… — Marlin K. Jensen
• At 14, I discovered girls. At that time, dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the… — Gene Kelly
• Over the years of courtship and being together, we realized that there was no value left for anything. People just… — Kareena Kapoor
• I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue… — George Eliot
• There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward. — Erica Jong
• Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because… — E. O. Wilson
• If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds… — E. O. Wilson
• The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. — Marcel Achard

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