Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.
If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.
I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.
I have gone wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any of them.
With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.
Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.
One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.
Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor, and in the arms of the Sea be secure. Who indeed should be so fortunate? An Ocean wooing a drop! In God's name, in God's name, sell and buy at once! Give a drop, and take this Sea full of pearls.
Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all.
