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Mates Quotes - Page 4

What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?

Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

She's no beauty, mate

Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

I guess Judd (Apatow) is my soul mate because we have a lot of hard times, and it's great at times, too.

"Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Talk THE OTHER WOMAN, Their Chemistry on Set, the Rating, and More". Press conference, collider.com. April 22, 2014.

When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

"Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2012.

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.10, Macmillan

You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.

"Rev. Jesse Jackson likens gay marriage push to fight over slavery". Interview with Rene Lynch, articles.latimes.com. May 10, 2012.

It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.

1950 Of Washington. Letter to Bernard Baruch, Feb. Quoted in James G Hershberg James B Conant (1993).

Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.337

Who hath a Wolfe for his mate, needes a Dog for his man.

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.317