quotations about dating
Don't look for a partner who is eye candy. Look for a partner who is soul food.
KAREN SALMANSOHN
Twitter post, July 12, 2015
Dating after 30 is easy. It's like riding a bike. But the bike is on fire. And the ground is on fire. Everything is on fire. Because you are in hell.
ANDREA BAIN
Single Girl Problems
Dating is about finding out who you are and who others are. If you show up in a masquerade outfit, neither is going to happen.
HENRY CLOUD
How to Get a Date Worth Keeping
Dating is a socially scripted relationship sequence that activates gender-relevant behaviors for most men and women. Gender role expectations are particularly salient because dating is defined in Western society as a testing ground for mate selection and eventual reproduction.
BONNIE J. DOW
The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Communication
Dating is like searching for the perfect wine. One date is too fruity, another too dry, and still another too much bouquet (cologne overdose). But once you find the perfect variety that suits your taste, get drunk.
KATIE KOSKO
How to Survive Dating
Dating is not a great way to "really get to know someone." Why? Because everyone is on best behavior during a date. If you really want to get to know someone, watch the person at school every day, or both of you get a job together at McDonald's. Eight straight hours over a hot greaser full of fries will tell you the real tale.
BLAINE BARTEL
Every Teenager's Little Black Book on Sex and Dating
The urge to connect with others, and to love and be loved, is ageless and universal. No matter what your age, lifestyle, or personality, whether you're seeking a one-night fling, a whirlwind weekend, a summer romance, or a lifetime love, dating is the way to find it!
ALISON BLACKMAN DUNHAM
The Everything Dating Book
The closest I ever came to a menage-a-trois was when I dated a schizophrenic.
RITA RUDNER
stand-up routine
You can't evaluate a prospective partner if you insulate your relationship from your family and friends--and his.
HARRIET LERNER
Twitter post, February 19, 2014
If you spend too long holding on to the one who treats you like an option. You'll miss finding the one who treats you like a priority.
ANONYMOUS
I used to have a vegan girlfriend
She's not vegan anymore
Now that we're not dating
She's my ex-vegan-ex
GOOD CLEAN FUN
"Ex-Straightedge-Ex"
Dating is pressure and tension. What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night?
JERRY SEINFELD
stand-up routine
A major difficulty with our theoretical understanding of dating is that we simply do not appreciate the purpose of the entire encounter. If we see it for what it really is--a courtship ritual--then we can identify the deep structures of the ritual, and that enables us to detect what is really going on. So dating is really all about sex.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations
Dating is a lot about looking good, trying to impress someone, and putting forth your best foot. There is nothing wrong with that, as after you know someone better, you are more comfortable allowing yourself to be seen for who you are. It's another thing, however, to put forward a foot that is not yours.
HENRY CLOUD
God Will Make a Way
From the minute we're born, boys and girls stare at each other, trying to figure out if they like what they see. Like parade lines, passing each other for mutual inspection. You march, you look. You march, you look. If you're interested, you stop and talk, and if it doesn't work out, you just get back in the parade. You keep marching, and you keep looking.
PAUL REISER
Couplehood
Dating is probably the most important aspect of a single person's life.
LINDA SUNSHINE
Women Who Date Too Much
When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it ... What we're searching for is what we lack.
SAM SHEPARD
The Observer, Mar. 20, 2010
Internet dating is like sticking your hand in a rose bush -- you are probably going to get a lot of thorns before you find a rose.
SAM VAN ROOD
Be a Great Flirt
I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. Some seem to have but one vulnerable point, or door of access; while others have a thousand avenues, and may be captured in a thousand different ways. It is a great triumph of skill to gain the former, but a still greater proof of generalship to maintain possession of the latter, for man must battle for his fortress at every door and window. He who wins a thousand common hearts is therefore entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero.
WASHINGTON IRVING
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
When virtual reality gets cheaper than dating, society is doomed.
SCOTT ADAMS
Dogbert