quotations about dating
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
Everybody knows the pressure of a first date: Searching for that perfect outfit. Hunting for ways to be engaging. Dissecting each detail when it's over to check for mistakes. Dating can make even the most confident person lose his cool.
KELLY STARLING
Ebony Magazine, May 2000
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 is meant to be temporary. You don't want to be friends with just one person. You don't want to learn only one person's interests, ways, or habits. You don't want to discover how you react to just one person. Dating one person is like trying one new food. Pizza's great, but if you never tried anything else, you'd never know how supper hamburgers and hot dogs and tacos and chop suey are.
CAROLE MARSH
Sex Stuff for Kids 7-17
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
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
Dating is primarily a numbers game.... People usually go through a lot of people to find good relationships. That's just the way it is.
HENRY CLOUD
How to Get a Date Worth Keeping
All men love to have difficulties to conquer in courtship.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON
Sir Charles Grandison
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
Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.
HENRY CLOUD
How to Get a Date Worth Keeping
Trying to combine parenting with early stage dating is like walking a tightrope while wrestling a dolphin: highly slippery, inadvisable, and just plain dangerous.
JOY BROWNE
Dating for Dummies
Triple dating is like double dating, with referees.
JACK NEARY
Jerry Finnegan's Sister
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 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
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
Hurry not a woman's favor; neither forcer her hastily to surrender to thee. For she goeth into love as she goeth into the waters at the seashore; first a hand and then a lip goeth she in by littles. She diveth not, she leapeth not from the pier; but by gentle shocks and cries of protest she entereth slowly; yet when the waters of love encompass her, then she is supported. She swimmeth in her joy; she floateth on the tide of happiness.
GELETT BURGESS
The Maxims of Methuselah
Everything he does while you're dating is like a crystal ball predicting what he's going to be like after you're married. If you don't like a habit of his, honey, unless you fix it before the altar, it's there to stay.
BETHANY JETT
The Cinderella Rule
Chase her. Chase her even when she's already yours. That's the only way you'll be assured to never lose her.
THE WEEKND
Twitter post, April 25, 2015
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
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