(22 quotes found)
“We cannot fight for love as men may do; We should be woo'd, and were not made to woo”
William Shakespeare
“'Healing,'' Papa would tell me, ''is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'”
W. H. Auden
“Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure”
“Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward,But then woos best when most his choice is froward.”
“He that would woo a maid must feign, lie and flatter, but he that woos a widow must down with his britches and at her”
Nathaniel Smith
“Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent”
“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.”
“Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.”
Charles V
“We find ourselves in a very difficult cycle of faculty who are very talented being wooed by other universities. We are a prime candidate for cherry-picking. In order to retain the integrity of our programs, we don't want to lose our very best faculty.”
Jerry Hauser