Courtship famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.
-- Benjamin Stillingfleet

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
-- Erica Jong

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So much of courtship is the unspoken.
-- Megan McCafferty

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It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.
-- Michael Reagan

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I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.
-- Nathaniel Parker Willis

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A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
-- Nicolas Chamfort

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Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don't you must still please-in order to avoid having one.
-- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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There is too little courtship in the world.
-- Vernon Lee

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The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.
-- Wilson Mizner

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The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.
Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they're about different things, science is about the way the world works and religion is about miracles, I mean, if you ask most ordinary people in church or in a mosque why they believe, it's almost certainly got something to do with the belief that God does wonderful things, that God intervenes, that God heals the sick, that God answers prayers, God forgives sins.
And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.
Whatever you are thinking, think bigger.
If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is for that very singing that the bird was made, so there is no need to ask why the human mind undertakes such toil in seeking out these secrets of the heavens. ... And just as other animals, and the human body, are sustained by food and drink, so the very spirit of Man, which is something distinct from Man, is nourished, is increased, and in a sense grows up on this diet of knowledge, and is more like the dead than the living if it is touched by no desire for these things.
The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears
Any play, I'm ready for all the plays, ... That's the whole thing. . . . Any time I can get out and show I can do this, do those type of things, I'm going to do it. It was just fun, being able to run and get down the field. Just run, do what I do.
Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.
Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating compassion and learning ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants, and minerals. I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life.