Courtship Quote by Benjamin Stillingfleet

You can never be too skilful.

— Owen Farrell

You've got to do it all, the physical as well as the skilful.

— Jamie Redknapp

We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.

— Walter Scott

Shepheards delights he dooth them all forsweare, Hys pleasaunt pipe, whych made us meriment, He wylfully hath broke, and doth forbeare, His wonted songs,…

— Edmund Spenser

Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.

— Robert Burns

But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower

— John Bunyan

Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.

— Mason Cooley

“But how true it is that every pleasure has also its reverse side, in brief, its pain. Or, if not wholly true, how nearly…

— Rose Macaulay

But as it falleth, in the gentlest hearts Imperious love hath highest set his throne, And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts Of them, that…

— Edmund Spenser

Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The…

— John Milton

Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.

— Francis Quarles