Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Wooing

A man may obtain easily a fatherless maid.Gaelic.

A rich man’s wooing is seldom long of doing.Scotch.

All wooers are rich and captives poor.German.

Happy’s the wooing that’s not long in doing.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.Shakespeare.

Never mind him, let him be,
By-and-by he’ll follow thee.

Not what is she but what hath she.

The last suitor wins the maid.

The wooing was a day after the wedding.

’Tis best to woo where you can see the smoke.Dutch.

To woo is a pleasure in young men, a fault in old.

Who the daughter would win,
With mamma must begin.German.