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«This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears»
«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»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Generations,
Love
| Keywords:
affinity, companionship, courtship, created, generations, In a, in a moment, long, moment, offspring, persevered, perseveres, persevering, spiritual, spiritual being, The Offspring, wrong, years
«If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elaborate courtship rituals. . . . Love and sex do indeed go together.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
| Keywords:
biological, bonds, by and large, ceremony, courtship, economically, elaborate, elaborated, evolved, go together, insemination, insertion, mammal, mammals, mate, mounting, one species, rely, rituals, scarcely, seconds, social function, sole, species, term
«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.»
«It was a very spasmodic courtship, conducted mainly at long distance with a great clanking of coins in dozens of phone booths.»
«Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood»
Author: Laurence Sterne
(Writer)
| About:
Courtship
| Keywords:
alarm, attentions, courtship, pointed, vague
«Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play»
«I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming with a goal in front and not behind»
«In courtship a man pursues a woman until she catches him»
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