“A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.”
Larry McMurtry (1936) American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter
Leaving Cheyenne (1963).
Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book III. Jason and Medea, Lines 1019–1021
“A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.”
Larry McMurtry (1936) American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter
Leaving Cheyenne (1963).
“Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew,
And her conception of the joyous Prime.”
Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene
Canto 6, stanza 3
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book III
“He was exhaled; his great Creator drew
His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
On the Death of a Very Young Gentlemen (1700).
Fred Weatherly (1848–1929) English lawyer, author, lyricist and broadcaster
Song Roses of Picardy http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/rosesofpicardy.htm
Aaro Hellaakoski (1893–1952) Finnish writer, poet, geographer and teacher
Aaro Hellaakoski. "The song of the pike hauen laulu." Aina Swan Cutler (trans.) in: Aili Jarvenpa, Michael G. Karni (1989), Sampo, the magic mill: a collection of Finnish-American writing.
Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
Canto IV, stanza 1. <br class="br"> The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
Larry McMurtry (1936) American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter
Source: Leaving Cheyenne
Charles Jefferys (1807–1865) British music publisher
Mary of Argyle, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).