(27 quotes found)
“It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations”
Kahlil Gibran
“It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.”
Khalil Gibran
“This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears”
Emily Murphy
“In courtship a man pursues a woman until she catches him”
Proverb
“There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship /only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.”
Erica Jong
“I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.”
Johnny Cash
“Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood”
Laurence Sterne
“It was a very spasmodic courtship, conducted mainly at long distance with a great clanking of coins in dozens of phone booths.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
“At least since Darwin, scientists have suspected that dance so often plays a role in courtship because dance quality tracks with mate quality. But this has been hard to study because of the difficulty of isolating dance movements from variables, such as attractiveness, clothing and body features. By using motion-capture technology commonly employed in medical and sports science to isolate dance movements, we can confidently peg dancing ability to desirability.”
Lee Cronk
“At least since Darwin, scientists have suspected that dance so often plays a role in courtship because dance quality tracks with mate quality. By using motion-capture technology ... we can confidently peg dancing ability to desirability.”
