Mating Quotes

• All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.

  Graham Swift

  Sex, Secret, Purpose

  Graham Swift (2012). “Shuttlecock”, p.78, Pan Macmillan

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• 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 friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  True Friend, Love Is, Men

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2010). “Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience Illustrated”, p.164, World Wisdom, Inc

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• 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

  Husband, Men, Way

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• I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Animal, Kind, Shots

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• High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

  Keith Henson

  Opportunity, Wife, Males

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• 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 the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Husband, Animal, Intelligent

  "Introduction to the Devout Life". Book by Saint Francis de Sales, 1609.

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• 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 "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating.

  Marvin Dunnette

  Sex, Motivation, Fighting

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• 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 dropping and they don't stop dropping until the act is completed. So it's not uncommon that they both fall all the way to the ground, hit the ground and both of them die. That's how committed they are to this. I thought to myself, 'Boy, don't we feel like wimps for stopping to answer the phone.' I don't know about you, but if I'm one of these two birds, you're getting close to the ground... I would serioulsy consider fakin' it.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Fall, Boys

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• An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Teeth, Evolution, Tales

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company

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• But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Friendship, True Friend, Men

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2010). “Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience Illustrated”, p.164, World Wisdom, Inc

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• For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sex, Butterfly, Sacrifice

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• They're not mating are they?

  Prince Philip

  Classic

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• There is a certain point of unity within the self, and between the self and its world, certain complicity and magnetic mating, a certain harmony, that conscious mind and will cannot direct. Perhaps analysis and the separate mastery of each element are required before the instincts are ready to assume command, but only at first. Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.

  Michael Novak

  Reality, Discovery, Self

  Michael Novak (1993). “The Joy of Sports: End Zones, Bases, Baskets, Balls, and the Consecration of the American Spirit”, p.172, Rowman & Littlefield

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• One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.

  Dian Fossey

  Social Behavior, Saving, Patterns

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• Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human beings.

  James Paul Gee

  Needs, Eating, Humans

  James Paul Gee (2005). “Why Video Games are Good for Your Soul: Pleasure and Learning”, p.29, Common Ground

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• I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.

  Helen Fisher

  Happiness, Romantic Love, Thinking

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• An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.

  Robert Hughes

  Garden, Past, Museums

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• The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses.

  Margaret Sanger

  Real, Lying, World

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• When turkeys mate they think of swans.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny Love, Drinking, Inspiration

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• Stieglitz conceived, though he never carried out, a series of photographs of the heads of stallions and mares, of bulls and cows, in the act of mating, hoping to catch in the brute an essential quality that would symbolize the probably unattainable photograph of a passionate human mating.

  Lewis Mumford

  Quality, Essentials, Passionate

  Lewis Mumford, Robert Wojtowicz (2008). “Mumford on Modern Art in the 1930s”, p.58, Univ of California Press

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• his snores sounded like ducks mating.

  George R. R. Martin

  Ducks

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1593, Bantam

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• men are attracted to beauty because it indicates health and youth—no point mating with a sickly woman who won’t be around to raise the children.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Children, Men, Youth

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• I couldn't be more chuffed if I were a badger at the start of the mating season!

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Badgers, Seasons

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• It's amazing how sudden the effect is - it must be the result of a deep atavistic mating urge buried inside us. A glance and you think: 'Yes, this is the one, this one is right for me.' Every instinct in your body seems to sing in unison.

  William Boyd

  Thinking, Body, Instinct

  William Boyd (2003). “Any human heart: a novel”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• So the hotel tells us that it is not safe to go in the water because its shark mating time. I know how I'd feel if someone interrupted me.

  Bill Engvall

  Sharks, Water, Safe

  Twitter post from May 29, 2013

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