Best female & species Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving the thrusts of horns similar to his own, and have therefore been formed for the purpose of combating other stags for the exclusive possession of the females; who are observed, like the ladies in the times of chivalry, to attend to the car of the victor. The final cause of this contest amongst the males seems to be, that the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species, which should thence become improved.”

Should Seems Purpose Causes Animal Car Survival Female Species Males Finals Possession Active Strongest Receiving Contests Exclusive Horns Adversaries Thrust Chivalry Stags

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“Girls and boys respond to stress differently - not just in our species, but in every mammal scientists have studied. Stress enhances learning in males. The same stress impairs learning in females.”

Girl Boys Female Scientist Stress Species Males Boy And Girl Mammals

Author:Leonard Sax

“[Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively katabolic and active. The fact remains that one frequently runs across a rather katabolic female.”

Facts Running Female Remains Species Males Active Passive Organisms Footnotes

Book:The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct

Source: The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct

“I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male.”

Humans Found Difficult Women Female Species Males Human Species

Book:No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“There are many other (besides testosterone) behaviour-eliciting hormones fundamental for humen well-being, including estrogen and progesterone in females. The fact that complex behavioural patterns can be triggered by a tiny concentration of moleculas coursing through the bloodstream, and that different animals of the same species generate different amounts of these hormones, is something worth thinking about when it's time to judge such matters as free will, individual responsibility, and law and order.”

“One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.”

Made Desire Women Fine Glory Female Species Continuity Perpetuating

Author:Honore de Balzac

“When the Hymalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail, For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.”

Turns Women Pride Bears Female Species Males Monsters Teeth Scare Nails Peasants

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“It's just as hard for man to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the species as it was to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the universe. He sees himself quite unconsciously as the main line of evolution, with a female satellite revolving around him as the moon revolves around the earth. This not only causes him to overlook valuable clues to our ancestry, but sometimes leads him into making statements that are arrant and demonstrable nonsense.”

Thinking Men Sometimes Hard Earth Universe Causes Lines Break Evolution Habit Moon Female Species Valuable Statements Nonsense Clue Ancestry Satellites Revolving

Author:Elaine Morgan

“In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species. Abortion was not a fancy borne out of the female mind. Abortion was instinct beyond ideas. Abortion was fear (the cat that devours its litter when a predator nears).”

Mind Ideas Self Creatures Female Cat Instinct Species Defense Fancy Abortion Preservation Self Defense Predator Lives Of Others Female Mind

Book:Sapogonia: (an Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter)

Source: Sapogonia: (an Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter)

“Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.”

Firsts Shows Seems Lasts Given Chance Comedy Female Species Appearance Second Chance

Author:Jo Brand

“For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. I never made a mistake in my life; At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards”

Men Made Mistake Fool Female Species Males Clever Manage Certainty Accurate Made A Mistake Very Clever Clever Man Clever Woman

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“Through sources, we have obtained the following alien assessment of the human species: The male wants to be valued for what he pretends to be. The female wants to be overvalued for what she truly is.”

Want Humans Source Female Species Males Following Aliens Assessment Human Species

Author:Robert Breault

“I believe in sensuality. I believe in sex. I believe in the survival of the species. I like aspects of things that are ethereal, but I like the reality of nature and embracing the way nature works, and aspects of interrelationships between male-female, aspects of the body, the way the body has changed over thousands of years . . .”

Way Years Believe Body Reality I Believe Sex Changed Survival Female Aspect Species Males I Believe In Sensuality Ethereal Male Female

Author:Jeff Koons

“There's over 100 species of lemurs. Each is a little bit different in their social structure except for one thing: they are all female dominant. The females are the leaders. They are the ones that call the shots. When you watch a group, you can see the females are the first one to say “We’re going to move.” Then she moves off and everybody just follows.”

Firsts Littles Different Moving Social Bits Leader Watches One Thing Groups Little Bit Shots Female Structure Species Dominant Social Structure Lemurs

Author:Patricia Wright

“Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males of the same species. There seems very little ground for claiming that the mother of young children is more peaceful, more responsible, and more thoughtful for the welfare of the human race than is her husband or brother.”

Humans Children Littles Seems Young Mother Animal Race Brother Husband Female Responsible Species Males Delight Peaceful Welfare Human Race Thoughtful Combat Mock Young Children

Author:Margaret Mead

“For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.”

Science Women Female Species Males Reincarnation Clue Mustard Clever Man Irresistible Force

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad mental shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about the female of the species (we became convinced that there was no such creatures, just mythology created by inflamed imaginations - one boy in our company claimed to have seen a girl, over at regimental headquarters; he was unanimously judged a liar and a braggart).”

“This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. 2. Pigs have wings, making them hard to catch. 3. All power corrupts, but we need electricity. 4. When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, the result is a family fight. 5. Music does not always sooth the troubled beast. 6. An Englishman's home is his castle. 7. The female of the species is more deadly than the male. 8. One black eye deserves another. 9. Space is the final frontier, and so is the sewage farm. 10. It pays to increase your word power.”

“The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.”

Dangerous Female Species Retreat

Book:The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel

Source: The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel

“So you love me," said Petra softly when the kiss ended. I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to understand," said Bean. "You're a female of a closely related species. According to all the best primatologists, I really have no choice." That's nice," she said.”

Said Young Choices Nice Kissing Mass Female Species Rage Related Beans Hormones All The Best Petra

Author:Orson Scott Card

“This was not some pretty little girl, coyly flirtatious, delicately stimulated. This was the mature female of the species, vivid, handsome and strong demanding that all the life within her be matched. Her instinct would detect any hedging, any dishonesty, any less than complete response to her - and then she would be gone for good.”

Littles Would Be Girl Strong Gone Female Instinct Response Species Mature Handsome Vivid Dishonesty Matched Flirtatious Hedging

Author:John D. MacDonald

“Jesus H. Christ. I have new respect for the female of the species suddenly.”

Jesus Christ Female Species

Book:Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series

Source: Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series

“It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his custom to call women. The individual disappeared, the features were obliterated, whether young or senile, beautiful or ugly - those were mere unimportant variations. Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite.”

Beautiful Faces Young Individual Behinds Seeing Female Sacred Mere Species Ugly Mysterious Features Customs Variation Unimportant Old Woman Aphrodite Senile

Author:Nikos Kazantzakis

“In the Old Language, she hissed, “If any harm shall befall him, I will come after you, and find you where you sleep. I do not care where you lay your head or who with, my vengeance shall rain upon you until you drown.” That last word was drawn out, until its syllable was lost in more growling. Dead silence. Until Doc Jane said dryly, “Annnnd this is why they say the female of the species is more dangerous than the male.”

Ifs Said Care Lasts Lost Language Sleep Silence Dangerous Rain Female Lays Species Males Harm Vengeance Last Words Jane Syllables Growling

Author:J.R. Ward

“Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves for the several centuries we need to catch our breath. What is it that enables certain flowers to resemble nubile insects, or opossums to play dead, or female fireflies to change the code of their flashes in order to attract, and then eat, males of a different species?”

Source: Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony

“Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling arrival of 'tilth' on the fingers of coastal land, suggests that such notable features of our planet as dinosaurs, the prairies, the Himalayas, the seagull, the female of the species herself, were accidental by-products of the Almighty's preoccupation with the creation of the Old Course at St. Andrews.”

Source: Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements

“Among the innumerable Footsteps of Divine Providence to be found in the Works of Nature, there is a very remarkable one to be observed in the exact Balance that is maintained, between the Numbers of Men and Women; for by this means it is provided, that the Species may never fail, nor perish, since every Male may have its Female, and of a proportionable Age.”

Men May Mean Ends Age Found Chance Numbers Failing Effects Divine Balance Men And Women Female Species Males Remarkable Providence Footsteps Genetics Divine Providence

Author:John Arbuthnot

“Because men, compared to male chimps, have such relatively small testicles (large testicles indicate a species where many males mate, one after the other, with the same female), we might guess that promiscuous societies were uncommon in the immediate human past.”

Men Humans Might Past Evolution Female Species Males Mates Uncommon Promiscuous Testicles

Author:Carl Sagan

“Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked.”

Women Female Species Witty Lioness Tigress

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

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