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"Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me." – Aristophanes
"The tree will not only lie as it falls, but it will fall as it leans. What is the inclination of my soul?" – Joseph John Gurney
"Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long a-doing, So much time is saved in the billing and cooing." – R. H. Barham, 'Sir Rupert the Fearless'.
"Ye belles, and ye flirts, and ye pert little things, Who trip in this frolicsome round, Pray tell me from whence this impertinence springs, The sexes at once to confound?" – Paul Whitehead, 'Song for Ranelagh'.