Mate Quotes

What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders. (John Updike)
Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Misses the tale that I relate - This lesson seems to carry - Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry. View quote
William Cowper
Having a mate has given me that feeling of safety. View quote
Lisa Bonet
No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing. View quote
Patty Duke
It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate. View quote
Rick Derringer
After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for. View quote
Suzy Bogguss
Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate? View quote
Germaine Greer
I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it. View quote
Steve Irwin
Crikey, mate. You're far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building. View quote
Steve Irwin
To be honest, when you're younger and cooler, you say those sort of things don't mean anything, but then on the day when they pat you on the back and they say, "Look, mate, we're noticing what you're doing-thanks very much;' you think of the people who spent a life in the cinema and didn't receive that kind of accolade, and it's sort of a humbling experience. And it's very nice and all that. But it doesn't change the way I do things. (Russell Crowe)
There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears. View quote
Sylvia Plath
Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate. View quote
Johan Cruyff
My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her. View quote
Matt Damon
Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young. View quote
Kim Wilde
Who you get, and how it works out - there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice of a mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle it if it turns out unhappily. View quote
Ian McEwan
In songbirds, it is generally the male of the species that sings, and for some species, the larger the repertoire, the more likely it is to attract a mate. View quote
Daniel Levitin
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics. View quote
Woody Allen
I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I'm up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets. View quote
Pete Doherty
Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold And the mate of the Nancy brig, And a bo'sun tight and a midshipmite And the crew of the captain's gig. View quote
W. S. Gilbert
The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. (Terry Pratchett)
Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes back from the hills With provision for his mate. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die. View quote
Ivan Illich
You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag. View quote
Norman Wisdom
He pinched the name tag and ran his fingers under the letters. "Can you read this, mate? It says C-H-A-R-O-N. Say it with me: CARE-ON." "Charon." "Amazing! Now: Mr. Charon." "Mr. Charon." "Well done. View quote
Rick Riordan