quotations about dating
When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.
EIJI YOSHIKAWA
Taiko
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
Courtship before marriage is too often like a brilliant short preface before a dull, ill-written, lengthy book.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
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
Dating is not only a wonderful time of life, but also a context for enormous spiritual and personal growth. You learn so much about yourself, others, God, love, spirituality, and life through dating. Done well, it can be fulfilling in and of itself. Done well, it can be one of the most fun and rewarding aspects of your life. Done well, it can lead to a good marriage.
HENRY CLOUD
How to Get a Date Worth Keeping
Dating should be a part of your life, not your life a part of dating. There is more to life than finding a date. But at the same time, dating is a part of your life, and if your "traffic patterns" don't include new people, they are not serving that part of your life.
HENRY CLOUD
How to Get a Date Worth Keeping
Habits and attitudes established during the dating years generally carry over into marriage.
MYLES MUNROE
Waiting and Dating
There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.
SYLVIA PLATH
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Think of this date as a first step. Dating is a process and it takes time. Sure, you'd like to find instant chemistry, mutual attraction, and common interests. That's the ideal. But there are many other possible outcomes. If you approach the situation with curiosity rather than rigid expectations, you'll be less likely to be disappointed.
SHARON ROMM
Dating After 50
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 a place to practice how to relate to other people.
HENRY CLOUD
How to Get a Date Worth Keeping
Dating is a battleground filled with deception and infidelity.
ANDREW S. TREES
Decoding Love
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
Dating with no intent to marry is like going to the grocery store with no money. You either leave unhappy or take something that isn't yours.
JEFFERSON BETHKE
Love That Lasts
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
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
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
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