quotations about dating
All men love to have difficulties to conquer in courtship.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON
Sir Charles Grandison
Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they've had a little time to mature. But others should be thrown out right away, No matter how you try to warm them up, they're never as good as when they were new.
LISA KLEYPAS
Sugar Daddy
When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.
EIJI YOSHIKAWA
Taiko
Dating is a numbers game, and online dating has the best odds.
JUDSEN CULBRETH
The Boomer's Guide to Online Dating
For some, dating is best described as an experience to endure until you meet someone to take you out of the meet market.
ALISON BLACKMAN DUNHAM
The Everything Dating Book
Dating is an activity with a variety of purposes. For young people just beginning to participate in this activity, dating may be seen primarily or exclusively in recreational terms, devoted simply to testing one's attractiveness to the opposite sex and having fun, as the term "dating game" implies. However, eventually dating relationships tend to become more sustained and serious, and at some point dating begins to be seen more directly in terms of the goal of selecting a mate.
MARTIN KING WHYTE
Dating
Because dating is a human exercise, it can be a tightrope fraught with danger. You will be dating imperfect people, and some of them are more imperfect than others. In addition, you are not perfect either, so that complicates the picture.
HENRY CLOUD
God Will Make a Way
He'd written me up a proposal of why dating him was a sound decision. It had included things like "I'll give up cigarettes unless I really, really need one" and "I'll unleash romantic surprises every week, such as: an impromptu picnic, roses, or a trip to Paris--but not actually any of those things because now they're not surprises."
RICHELLE MEAD
Spirit Bound
Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art in the wrong, so that thou mayest acknowledge thine error.
GELETT BURGESS
The Maxims of Methuselah
Dating is a give and take. If you only see it as "taking," you are not getting it.
HENRY CLOUD
How to Get a Date Worth Keeping
Dating is like using the treadmill. If you don't do it often enough, you might as well not do it at all.
BEVERLY GROSSMAN
Women Who Date Too Much
Pushing for promises, when the person you're dating is reluctant or unsure, is a recipe for disaster. A relationship has to evolve at a speed that causes the least discomfort to the person going the slowest.
SHARON ROMM
Dating After 50
Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.
HENRY CLOUD
How to Get a Date Worth Keeping
When I'm single, I don't focus. I focus on a guy if he's a boyfriend, but I don't focus on finding a boyfriend. They're never around when you want them.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
Seventeen Magazine, May 2007
Successful dating is not a destination, but rather it is a journey. This journey can either continue as marriage or friendship.
NOAH MITCHELL
The Nitty Gritty
Dating is about casting a wide net. It's about having faith that there is someone out there for you and knowing you can help him find you.
LAURA DOYLE
The Surrendered Single
Dating is a battleground filled with deception and infidelity.
ANDREW S. TREES
Decoding Love
Triple dating is like double dating, with referees.
JACK NEARY
Jerry Finnegan's Sister
Women become attached to men through the favours they grant them, but men are cured of their love through those same favours.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
"Of Women", Les Caractères
The thing about dating is that it's hardly ever called a date. It's "let's hang out," "let's get together," "let's get some food," or "let's go get some beers." Those are all ways of asking someone out for a date.
SYLVIA HOWELL
How to Survive Dating