Mating – Everything

Mating

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
—Goethe

Apr 052023
 

Domestic sentiment is impossible to portray effectively in art, because it is universal, deeply felt, and always the same.

Jan 042023
 

Principles of Evolutionary Biology

1. It can be explained by natural selection.
2. If it cannot be explained by natural selection, it can be explained by sexual selection.

Dec 022022
 

What makes a marriage is less common interests than complementary vices.

Nov 242022
 

One flesh, in many marriages, is no mere metaphor: the vitality of husband and wife mix, and one waxes as the other wanes.

Dec 032021
 

Men marry for looks, and women for money — it’s too easy to kid yourself about the rest.

Oct 182021
 

That boys play King of the Hill, and girls do not, explains more about the world than all of gender theory.

Sep 152021
 

Love-conquers-all is the dullest story in the world. In most of the interesting stories love conquers nothing whatever.