Mating Quotes

61 quotes by 55 authors

In its purest form, dating is auditioning for mating (and auditioning means we may or may not get the part). — Joy Browne
Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a… — Charles Alexander Eastman
A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a… — Siegbert Tarrasch
Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating. — Norman Douglas
The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to… — Saint Francis de Sales
Golden eagles have an interesting way of mating, where they connect in the air while flying at eighty miles an hour and then they start… — Ellen DeGeneres
We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two… — Edward Abbey
Charity groped for the phone, coming up with it at last and croaking "hello" in a voice that sounded exactly like a bullfrog's mating call.… — Elizabeth Jane Howard
Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because of the limited age span… — E. O. Wilson
The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the… — Marvin Dunnette
A large proportion of mankind, like pigeons and partridges, on reaching maturity, having passed through a period of playfulness or promiscuity, establish what they hope… — C. D. Darlington
We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating, but… — Francis Galton
I couldn't be more chuffed if I were a badger at the start of the mating season! — Ian Holloway
After giving a student the basic mating patterns and strategies you must begin giving them advanced concepts. At first these ideas will not make sense,… — Jeremy Silman
I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way. — Robert Johnson
A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without giving him the… — Gregor Piatigorsky
Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all. — Max Euwe
For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
They're not mating are they? — Prince Philip
Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and higher, elating the… — Elif Safak

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