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From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2008-07-04:

Nulli se dicit mulier mea nubere malle
quam mihi, non si se Iupiter ipse petat.
dicit: sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti,
in vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.

The woman I love says that there is no one whom she would rather marry
than me, not if Jupiter himself were to woo her.
Says; -- but what a woman says to her ardent lover should be
Written in wind and running water.

-- Catullus, Poem 70, c. 59 BC.

(submitted to the mailing list by Sharon Reddy)