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High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment. -- Keith Henson
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
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
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
What in the blue star-blazes did you see in Jason?" he asked, still forcefully but with his frustration and jealousy under better control."For one thing, Djetth, he wasn't trying to kill me!"("Marsh", heroine of Insufficient Mating Material) -- Rowena Cherry
his snores sounded like ducks mating. -- George R. R. Martin
Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song. -- Peter R. Grant
Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating. -- Norman Douglas
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating. -- John Naisbitt
I couldn't be more chuffed if I were a badger at the start of the mating season! -- Ian Holloway
There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different. -- Isabella Rossellini
For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby. -- Helen Fisher
And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare...oh, it's just an oboe player. -- Steve Irwin
In its purest form, dating is auditioning for mating (and auditioning means we may or may not get the part). -- Joy Browne
Concerning PDA: Anything that can be described as 'cute' is okay. Anything that can be described as 'mating' is not okay. -- Ryan Hansen
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
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
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
Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society. -- E. M. Forster
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 matter of course -- Siegbert Tarrasch
The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place. -- Richard Dawkins
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
In general, men are wired to notice obvious signs that convey interest in mating - a warm smile, for example - and ignore other subtleties, like if your lipstick is faded. -- Helen Fisher
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
...just a little touches her and there. He puts his hands on your arms or back, he stands close to you, getting you used to him... it's a mating ritual. Like March of the Penguins. -- Lisa Kleypas
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 Eastman
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 Eastman
The genus Drosophila is one of the great success stories. There's hundreds of species within the genus. They're on every continent except Antarctica, they're in tropical rain forests, they're in deserts, they've evolved many exotic mating behaviors, and they're capable of incredibly long-distance flights. -- Michael Dickinson
I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't really like to think of ourselves as another animal, another digesting, excreting, mating, snoring, sleeping kind of sack of guts. I don't think we like that. I think we'd rather not be reminded of it. -- Mary Roach
No matter how free divorce, how frequently marriages break up, in most societies there is the assumption of permanent mating, of the idea that the marriage should last as long as both live. . . . No known society has ever invented a form of marriage strong enough to stick that did not contain the 'till death us do part' assumption. -- Margaret Mead
Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is now fourteen, and, while he gives little sign of doing what Lord Rochester planned to do at the same age, there are nonetheless changes afoot. Harry's voice, like that of his best friend, Ron (Rupert Grint), sounds like the mating cry of an oboe, and, worse still, the two cease to be best friends. -- Anthony Lane
They're not mating are they? -- Prince Philip
the sex even in serious pornography has less singularity than the mating of squirrels. -- Storm Jameson
Passion in a dromedary doesn't go so deep; a camel when it's mating never sobs itself to sleep. -- Noel Coward
Pack is built on the bonds of family, of mating, of love. You come first. You always will. -- Nalini Singh
It's easy to remember, because dating rhymes with mating, and they're almost the same [...] So your mom thinks we're ma-- Uh, dating? -- Anna Banks
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
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
Anyway, I was the one in real danger. I got cornered by a pack of wild sorority girls in the food court. Apparently it's mating season. -- Rachel Vincent
I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building. -- Norman Foster
men are attracted to beauty because it indicates health and youthâ??no point mating with a sickly woman who wonâ??t be around to raise the children. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
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
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 satisfaction of a lover. -- Gregor Piatigorsky
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
It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals. -- Mohsin Hamid
Faint equivalents can sometimes be found ... . Or it can be rendered obliquely-an adolescent's mental image of his or her parents making love, which must be something on the order of crocodiles mating. -- Donald Barthelme
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 gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic. -- Edward Abbey
Love, I have always known, is an evolutionary trait. It is a delicately tuned, intricate, sensitive impulse, but a trait nevertheless, a reaction honed by millions of years of an ever-changing and complex mating instinct. -- David Bajo

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