Quotes About Mateship

#1. He will always know as we know now that in the heat of battle he did not fail when mateship and duty called.

Julia Gillard

#2. With sport went beer drinking and gambling - until recently restricted by the wowsers, but part of that code of mateship of men, that necessity constantly to demonstrate masculine sameness, which provided one of the most flattening sources of uniformity.

Donald Horne

#3. 'Bloody' has now become an important indicator of Australianness and of cultural values such as friendliness, informality, laid-backness, mateship - and perhaps even the Australian dislike and distrust of verbal and intellectual graces

Kate Burridge

#4. Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship. To sink a few cold ones with the blokes is both an escape and a confirmation of belonging.

Rennie Ellis

#5. Never trust anyone who buttons their top button.

Daniel Tosh

#6. John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the 'Con' into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the 'vat' into Conservative!

David Miliband

#7. I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can't reach it in order to encourage us be nice to each other.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden

#8. If you can't change it don't worry about it.

David Barrett

#9. Utopias bore me. I'm interested in constructing messy, complicated societies that are full of flaws and then saying, ooh, this is interesting, let's see what happens if I poke it here. And concurrently with this and the previous point, I'm interested in making up cultures that are different

Marie Brennan

#10. My life is an open book looking for chapters of love to fill my lonely pages.
-Michelle Carithers
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Michelle Carithers

#11. I'm the only person I know of who's ever been pulled over for attempted speeding.

Paula Poundstone

#12. History is sympathetic to its authors.

John McAfee

#13. I got cat class and I got cat style

Brian Setzer

#14. The muttered hint, "Remember, you have a stroke here," freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.

John Updike

#15. Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome and heir to a throne?

Stephen Sondheim

#16. I am troubled that someone would sell a book, trading on their service as a government insider with access to our nation's most valuable intelligence, in order to profit from the suffering that this nation endured on September 11, 2001.

Bill Frist