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1 " True, I talk of dreams,Which are the children of an idle brain,Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,Which is as thin of substance as the air,And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north,And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence,Turning his side to the dew-dropping south. "
― William Shakespeare , Romeo and Juliet
2 " New York is unruly, tangled. The city woos first, then mangles, then pastes back together in a fresh, dazzling mosaic. "
― Elizabeth Winder , Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
3 " Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle capricious and unreasoning as some complain. "
4 " Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly enthusiastically unremittingly woo her. "