Monogamy Quotes · Page 4

We just can't shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it's also fun.

— Claire Danes

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

— Bertrand Russell

If I wasn't in a monogamous gay relationship I would have sex with all of you

— Sara Quin

“I haven’t had the opportunity to discover the merits of monogamy.”

— Ken Follett

You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.

— Rich Lowry

The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.

— Will Cuppy

“Either one is promiscuous or in a relationship - it cannot be both at the same time.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.

— Nancy Friday

I wouldn't say I'm a serial monogamist...I mean, I went through periods of time when I was, ah, single. But when I'm…

— Scarlett Johansson

Commitment in a relationship doesnt guarantee a certain outcome, but it does make more certain your investment in the process and fosters…

— Jordan Blake Michiels

“I’ve been practicing serial monogamy with one loser after another since I was eighteen. You can’t deny I’m an asshole magnet.”

— Avery Flynn

“When monogamy is found in subsistence-level cultures, Alexander calls it “ecologically imposed.” When it appears in more affluent, more stratified cultures, he…

— Robert Wright

“Monogamous romantic commitment, like infallible lifelong attraction to only men or only women, is surely a minority tendency expediently elevated to a…

— Hannah Black

I think monogamy is a little unnatural, if I'm totally honest. You change. Things alter. It's the exception rather than the rule…

— Robert Powell

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…

— Joanna Garcia

“Most women think cheating is 'disgusting' … until they fall for a man that likes them back; but isn’t willing to leave…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When I tell her I feel like the other woman, she laughs, that's just learned sexist bullshit. We are all in charge…

— Zoe Whittall

“What I'm putting forth," he said, "is that the four of us make some memories, become fast friends and abandon starchy old…

— George Saunders

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Especially…

— Ernest Hemingway

The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of…

— Brigham Young

My music touches on things I am concerned with in my own life - the idea of a woman's role in society,…

— Jane Badler

Talk about polygamy! There is no true philosopher on the face of the earth but what will admit that such a system,…

— Brigham Young

I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Anthropologist Donald Symons is as amazed as we are at frequent attempts to argue that monogamous gibbons could serve as viable models…

— Cacilda Jethá

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

— Erica Jong

Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.

— Rita Rudner

I'm monogamous from time to time, but I prefer polygamy and polyandry.

— Carla Bruni

I'm your only one... but what you call monogamy is lying to everyone.

— Amel Larrieux

“[I}t is more common that people are monogamous not by choice, but by default.”

— Tristan Taormino

Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but its not enough.

— John Patrick Shanley

Monogamy is monotonous, but it's safe you know. And that's my philosophy. And I like to convey that to people.

— Joy Behar

Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

— Hector Hugh Munro

Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I've broken up with people over it. You can't do monogamy 90 percent of the time.

— Alanis Morissette

I do think that monogamy is possible. I just don't think it's the natural way of things.

— Hugh Hefner

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“I think I held on for so long because I kept hearing that the alternative, monogamy, was oppressive.”

— Fabian Romero

Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.

— Rita Mae Brown

What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.

— Fran Lebowitz

I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture…

— K. D. Lang

“A healthy world is made of healthy nations. A healthy nation is made of healthy families. And a healthy family can only…

— Abhijit Naskar