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Quotes About Monogamy

But you can love more than just one person, can't you?
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love is cursed by monogamy
~ Kanye West
We hate guys who date more than one woman at a time. I've always believed that what's unacceptable in one sex should, by definition, be unacceptable in the other.
~ Candace Bushnell
A dog's love is forever. We expect infidelity from one another; we marvel at this one's ability to hold that one's interest for fifty, sixty years; perhaps some of us feel a secret contempt for monogamy even as we extol it, wishing parole for its weary participants. But dogs do not receive our sympathy or our suspicion -- from dogs we presume an eternal adoration.
~ Karen Russell
Our culture may be highly sexualised, promiscuous and pornographic, but men and women will go to extraordinary lengths to hide their sexual activity. They value honour and monogamy: very few men are prepared to leave their wife for a mistress, and there is some evidence to suggest that people value sexual fidelity more than ever before now that so many other aspects of life cannot be relied upon.
~ Kate Figes
I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.
~ Kate Millett
The fact is that happily married men don't sleep around.
~ burchill julie ii
Timeo hominem unius mulieris. (''A man who keeps to one woman is formidable.'')
~ Hilaire Belloc
Monogamy is a tricky thing. I don't think it's for everyone, but I've chosen that life, and there's no question in my relationship.
~ Joanna Garcia
I'm a one-man kind of girl, and I only want a man who's a one-woman man.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin
Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
~ Quentin Crisp
I dated around some, but I've always been a serial monogamist. I don't know how people date around a lot, and not want to stab themselves in the face with a sharp object.
~ Chris Hardwick
Hot sex doesn't lead to secure love; rather, secure attachment leads to hot sex—and also to love that lasts. Monogamy is not a myth.
~ Sue Johnson
While the moral force of Judeo-Christian tradition and the law have sought to purify the penis, and to restrict its seed to the sanctified institution of matrimony, the penis is not by nature a monogamous organ. It knows no moral code. It was designed by nature for waste, it craves variety, and nothing less than castration will eliminate the allure of prostitution, fornication adultery, or pornography.
~ Gay Talese
If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.
~ George Carey
Monogamy," he stated flatly. "While you're with me, I'm the only one. Anybody else touches you and I'll kill them." "What if I accidently bump into someone?" Gold flashed in his eyes. "Don't.
~ Ilona Andrews
I'd be staring at you and thinking, I should ask, I should ask, I should ask; do you want to be in a stable monogamous relationship for the rest of your life?
~ Sachin Kundalkar
When I love somebody, I love somebody. Like, I want to marry them. I don't date around. I haven't been on a date.
~ Katy Perry
I believe in finding a soul mate. I've always been in monogamous relationships. I would never want to be in an open one. It'd be too awful. Monogamy can be hard work for some people. I don't think it applies to everybody, and I don't think a lot of people can do it.
~ Scarlett Johansson
You could try to live monogamously. Good luck.
~ Willie Nelson
King Mongut had 9,000 wives. Think of it: 365 days a year divided into 9,000. No arguments. No menstrual periods. No psychic overload. Just feast and feast and feast. It must have been very hard for King Mongut to die, or very easy. There could not have been an in-between.
~ Charles Bukowski
Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.
~ Sienna Miller
You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.
~ Rich Lowry
I had met my now wife, Sheryl, and was attempting my first try at monogamy, which was not really in my nature at the time, and I wasn't able to do it.
~ Rob Lowe