Jermain Defoe Quotes

Before marriage people want everyone to look at their girlfriends. But after marriage they want to keep their wives locked way.

It’s really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people.

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

Men were never expected to be monogamous.

I'm not very good at being a wife because I break all the rules.

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

I don't think it's really possible to share someone in most cases.

I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married.

I think marriage and family keeps being written about because that's where we keep our reputations with ourselves - I mean, we can't quite slip the truths we reveal about ourselves at home.

I only wanted to get married once, so when I felt I was ready to handle it, I looked at my relationships and noticed that boyfriends get tired of girlfriends, and vice versa, but you never get tired of your friends.

I'll always be this crazy, fun person, but when it's time to get married, I'm going to be an amazing wife.

There's a difference... between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry.

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

I'm not jealous, and I'm not possessive, and I'm not controlling.

Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

I'm a married man. If I want sex at this particular point in my life, I go home for it.

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

No matter how committed a marriage, there will always be other people - those we have chemistry with and those we don't, those we are attracted to, and those who shop for functional outdoors wear. The sooner a couple can accept the existence of the former and exchange a few basic reassurances concerning them, the easier life gets.

Monogamy is desirable for many reasons, especially in creating a stable, emotionally connected home for children. But judging from centuries of human behavior, it is also a very difficult standard to meet.

Is the relationships with your spouses of such fragility that the fact that I have a committed, loving relationship with another man jeopardizes them?

When I was a young kid, girls were taught that their role in life was to get married and have children. It was the 1950s. Those were the rules.

Open relationships aren't for me.