Jeremiah A. Denton Jr. Quotes

People get married for a wide array of reasons and have all sorts of expectations of how marriage will change the relationship. And while it's true that turning the person you're dating into a legal partner does affect certain things, those who expect marriage to be a cure-all for all your relationship woes are sorely mistaken.

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

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

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

Don't get married to an actress because they're also actresses in bed.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.

A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

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

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.

I've never really thought I'd get married. It's not that I'm suspicious of it or anything like that, it's just that I don't have a reference for it because my mum wasn't.

I think that with marriages, people have to understand that you have to look at your marriage and understand what is needed in your marriage - not what people think your marriage should be or what people want your marriage to be.

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.

I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

I definitely don't want to get married just for the sake of getting married.

I've had two terrific relationships, but both ended in marriage.

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

I've had four amazing men in my life, very strong, powerful, wonderful men. I certainly will have a relationship with someone but I don't think I will get married again.

I get a headache if I don't have a woman every day.

I go out and date people, but I don't have that relationship, where you know, I'm like Jennifer Lopez, like I'm going to get married.