Good Mate Quotes

#1. Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.

Socrates

#2. Alex smiled. Andy was a good mate.
"And they'll get a good laugh out of that black eye." He grinned.
Alex glared; Andy was a dickhead

L.A. Gilbert

#3. If you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign that you've got good genes, you've got a good upbringing and therefore you'll make a good mate.

Marcus Du Sautoy

#4. Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

Amy Grant

#5. There was a saying on the island: "[I]t is a pity to spoil a good mate by making him a master.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#6. She was just...hurt. And tired of feeling as if she wasn't good enough to officially mate with. It was no wonder her wolf was going insane.

Katie Reus

#7. I'm a woman who's chosen her soul-mate. I'm strong enough to love you unconditionally. I'm smart enough to know some days will be good and some days will be bad. And I'm brave enough to solemnly swear that we will be together until the end.

Pepper Winters

#8. My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

Ian Hart

#9. It's good to be incompatible with your partner sometimes. It causes your souls to stretch & grow - the point of a soul mate!

Judith Orloff

#10. Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's Saint Valentine's.
For that good bishop's sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.

Michael Drayton

#11. Some mate," Karl Framm said with contempt. "Hell, that little stern-wheeler we're chasin' don't draw nothin'. After a good rain, she could steam halfway across the city of N'Orleans without ever noticin' that she'd left the river.

George R R Martin

#12. Wrapped up in him, in his bad boy ways and his good guy heart, is my whole world. Somehow, while I wasn't looking, I fell. And I fell hard. For my soul mate. For the love of my life. For my hero.

M. Leighton

#13. My father said that love at first sight should send you running, if you know what's good for you. It's your dark pieces having instant recognition with their dark pieces, he says. You're an idiot if you think it means you've met your soul mate. So I was an idiot.

Deb Caletti

#14. So ... you lot got dates for the ball yet?"
"Nope," said Ron.
"Well, you'd better hurry up mate, or all the good ones will be gone," said Fred.

J.K. Rowling

#15. Mercy might be mated to Adam, but to his wolf she would always belong to Bran. Would always be his little coyote, who was tough and defiant, raised by a good friend because Bran couldn't trust his mate with someone he cared about who was more fragile than his grown sons.

Patricia Briggs

#16. So, to put it perfectly frankly, I was horny. I was horny and Paine was attractive and charming and he had this tiny little hint of danger that made my lady bits clench in what I was convinced was a prehistoric, biological impulse to mate with an alpha male to pass on good genes to a new generation.

Jessica Gadziala

#17. Holloa! Starbuck's astir," said the rigger. "He's a lively chief mate that; good man, and a pious; but

Herman Melville

#18. Coming for her. Because I'm its ... mate. Oh, man, that couldn't be good. She wanted this centaur to get her away from that wolf! She screamed against her gag, "Moo ur ass! Hu-y!"
Chloe

Kresley Cole

#19. 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.

Patty Duke

#20. What does she look like?" Sin asked.
"Like she'd look good on a mattress."
Sin jammed her fists on her hips. "That tells me nothing, and aren't you mated?"
"I'm also a sex demon. I didn't go blind when I took a mate.

Larissa Ione

#21. The best gifts to give: To your friend, loyalty; To your enemy, forgiveness; To your boss, service; To a child, a good example; To your parents, gratitude and devotion; To your mate, love and faithfulness; To all men and women, charity.

Oren Arnold

#22. I was on the set of 'Braveheart' and my mate says to me, 'Do you think this film will be any good?' And I really meant this, too, I told him 'Let me put it this way - It won't win any awards.' Cut to: five Oscars.

Peter Mullan

#23. Move it along, mate. A fast funeral is a good funeral. Ron is not completely sure what the word 'misogynist' means. He keeps forgetting to look it up in the dictionary because he doesn't have a dictionary.

Liane Moriarty

#24. I like a drink, mate. I'll have maybe 10 or 12 pints on a good night out.

Eric Bristow

#25. Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart - had a mate. A rightness. She'd always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.

Nora Roberts

#26. The search for the soul mate, the perfect partner to complete you, is a bit like searching for the perfect food when you've got a giant ulcer in your stomach. No matter what you find, it will never be good enough.

Vironika Tugaleva

#27. Patrice had long since buried the particulars of events so painful that they caused her to resolve only to see good. With such a stance, such as dissociative split, she could walk with evil and believe it did not exist. She was Joe's perfect mate.

Judith Spencer

#28. In choosing a mate, don't pick the tallest and most handsome or the most beautiful. Don't choose one just because that person raises your physical passions. Look for the person who is good from within, the one with substance and worth.

Helen Quist Milligan

#29. Congratulations. So far, you've both scored a hundred percent on the quiz."
"Quiz?" Liam blinked, then looked at Hammer, his eyes wide. "Shit, we didn't study, mate."
"If Seth is giving the quiz, we're good. He can't be smarter than us," Hammer said in a stage whisper.

Shayla Black

#30. Still think she is worth it?" Mahon asked quietly.
"Of course. She is my mate."
Mahon sighed. "So you decided then."
"Do you think we'd be laying here bleeding in the snow if I wasn't sure?"
"Good point.

Ilona Andrews

#31. Hope is good to have," Murgull said after a moment. "But hope does not lift a tree about to crush your mate, or bring meat to a starving belly. It warms a cold heart and it soothes a worried brain, but what use is that?

R. Lee Smith