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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Giving words [is] an act of lovers.
So much of courtship is the unspoken.
Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.
There is too little courtship in the world.
See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.
It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.
A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.
Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays.
Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.
'Letters From Home' is a story inspired by my grandparents' epistolary courtship.
I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.
In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow.
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
Usually, Valentine's Day comes and goes with just a day or two of news media attention to courtship and marriage.
The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.
Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.
Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!
I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.
God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse.
Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts To courtship and such fair ostents of love As shall conveniently become you there.
At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship.
Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: "That women are timid:" And 'tis well they are--else there would beno dealing with them.
I've always said men should study romance novels to find out how women think and what they want, both during the courtship phase and in a lifelong partner.
Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.
Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.
Marriage has changed Himmanshoo in some ways. Throughout our 10 years of courtship, he was more liberal. But after marriage, he has become a typical Indian husband.
Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.
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.
Throughout our courtship, Kenny told me that he had proof that Saddam Hussein was a threat because he possessed weapons of mass destruction. I told him, 'You had me at weapons.'
My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory.
Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.
In a second-class courtesan house, the courtship was much briefer. It could even be one night; usually it went on a little bit longer. But as the years went by, that period of courtship was shorter and shorter.
A lot of people head into courtship looking for fireworks. Don't pass up a chance by dumping someone after a first date because you don't feel the fireworks. The fireworks can happen at any time and be maintained.
It's true that romance novels do detail the courtship phase of a relationship. We usually write 'And they lived happily ever after' before our heroine starts snoring or our hero starts tossing his socks over the hamper.
For decades, Trump had no life independent from the media. He became a figure in the nation, and his a monitisable name - albeit quite a ludicrous one - because of his nonstop, relentless, shameless and often embarrassing courtship of the media.
I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part was in the essential act of singing. When is it that the voice becomes an elixir? It's during flirting, courtship, sex. Music's all that.
To empower women, power must be given to them, presumably by an entity that already has it. And that entity is the patriarchy. This also implies that women must be on the receiving end, waiting - politely - to be empowered. Very Victorian-era courtship, isn't it?
A romance is a courtship story. In the 19th century, the definition of the romance genre was an escape from daily life that included adventure and love and battle. But in the 20th century, that term changed, and now it's deemed only a love story, specifically a courtship story.
I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal.
Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook featuring recipes my grandmother had collected and created over decades. While interviewing her for the biographical section, she began to talk about her courtship with my late grandfather.
I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'
