Male Mating Success

Famous quotes containing the words male, mating and/or success:

    It is well within the order of things
    That man should listen when his mate sings;
    But the true male never yet walked
    Who liked to listen when his mate talked.
    Anna Wickham (1884–1947)

    He’s one of those know-it-all types that, if you flatter the wig off him, he chatter like a goony bird at mating time.
    —Michael Blankfort. Lewis Milestone. Johnson (Reginald Gardner)

    People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
    Anne Sullivan (1866–1936)