Boies Penrose Quotes

But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three.

I don't know, monogamy is a weird thing for me.

Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

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.

Why are we so obsessed with monogamous fidelity?

I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently.

I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference.

I always admire the French and the Italians who are very devoted to their marriages. They take them extremely seriously, but it is understood that there might be other visitors at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. You just never boast about. They never say anything, but that's what keeps marriages together.

It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.

Do I think human beings are meant to be in 40-year-long monogamous, faithful, relationships? No, No, No. Whoever said they were? Only the Bible or something. No one ever said that was a good idea.

I believe in sexual monogamy, but I don't believe in emotional monogamy.

Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

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

I've been married five times, and people think that's some bizarre thing, yet I've got buddies who refuse to get married and have sex with 15 people a week. I'm like "Which is better?" At least I was trying.

I don't believe [monogamy] is realistic. But, I believe that we, as people, have the power to make it happen.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

The way I grew up, when you're married, you have to stay married together.

Men were never expected to be monogamous.

I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being.

A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.

I think I was a terrible husband, I think I'm a terrible boyfriend.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.