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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all.
Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.
With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.
I have gone wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any of them.
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.
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.
Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.
I felt that for 20 years, I was wooing the people of my country and asking them to like me as an actor, and when they liked me as an actor, I told them, 'Now, you like my politics.'
For years, as a seller of real estate and star of reality TV, Donald Trump made a living wooing customers and viewers. His selling skills were good enough that he even convinced voters to elect him as president in spite of his near-total lack of qualifications.
The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central focus of education.
In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
