Dating - Quotes

Courtship before marriage is too often like a brilliant short preface before a dull, ill-written, lengthy book. - Eliza Cook

Dating is a battleground filled with deception and infidelity. - Andrew S. Trees

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

Dating is about casting a wide net. It's about having faith that there is someone out there for you and knowing you can help him find you. - Laura Doyle

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

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 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

Even brief dating encounters can be pleasant and rewarding. They provide an opportunity to exercise one's social skills and validate one's style of relating to the opposite sex. As discussed earlier, dating experience can expand knowledge, add insight, and maintain self-confidence in coping with sexual and love relationships. Being liked, appreciated, and admired is flattering and a boost to one's morale even when the encounter has no continuity. Dating is a distinctive social context within which to express one's personality and outlook on life outside of work or family relations. - Linda P. Rouse

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

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

Most of us don't stop to think about what to look for in the dating process, and yet the choice of who to go out with and continue dating is probably one of the most important decisions we'll ever make in our lives. It is also, all too often, one of the most unconscious choices made. - Nina Atwood

Most, if not all of your relationships will begin with some potential. But as you continue to date, you are likely to learn things about some of your potential partners that indicate that you are not a perfect match. Since dating is more a process of elimination than of selection, this is a common dating experience. - Alison Blackman Dunham

Only married people think dating is fun.... You have a sweet nostalgic notion that dating is happy and charming, and fluttery first-date feeling. In real life ... dating is like playing Russian roulette with humans. You could meet a nice guy who doesn't want to tie you up (much), or you could meet that crazy guy who secretly posts ads on Craigslist looking for a woman to pee on him. - Laurie Perry

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

Since you are "in the market," you need to set standards of what you are seeking in a partner and in a relationship. Dating is not simply a prelude to a committed relationship or marriage. Dating is an opportunity to evaluate whether the person you are dating is a good candidate for you. You need to pay attention to your partner's positive and negative characteristics. Ask yourself whether you could live with this person for the rest of your life. - David Price

There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears. - Sylvia Plath

Think of this date as a first step. Dating is a process and it takes time. Sure, you'd like to find instant chemistry, mutual attraction, and common interests.That's the ideal. But there are many other possible outcomes. If you approach the situation with curiosity rather than rigid expectations, you'll be less likely to be disappointed. - Sharon Romm

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

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 Bruyere

You can't evaluate a prospective partner if you insulate your relationship from your family and friends – and his. - Harriet Lerner