Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. — Oliver Herford
Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes. — Albert Camus
Courtship is a commitment -
it's a promise not to play games with another person's heart. — Joshua Harris
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. — Aeschylus
Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment. — Desmond Morris
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses. — James Dobson
Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge. — Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Short Monogamy Quotes
The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy — Brigham Young
I can't imagine anything more stressful than monogamy. — Errol Flynn
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius. — Warren Beatty
Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy. — Huey Long
Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum. — Adam Phillips
Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much...
...Monogamy ? It's the same. — Oscar Wilde
We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion. — Erica Jong
I believe in sexual monogamy, but I don't believe in emotional monogamy. — Nico Tortorella
Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy. — Aldous Huxley
Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy. — Ellen Key
Monogamy Image Quotes
Monogamous Relationship Quotes
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
While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn. I have never been approached by Dave Grohl in more than a platonic way. I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy. Twitter should ban my mother. — Frances Bean Cobain
My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people. — Lindsay Lohan
Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships. — Rick Santorum
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships. — Margaret Mead
If I wasn't in a monogamous gay relationship I would have sex with all of you — Sara Quin
I'm sure that if I had a partner and that partner cheated on me, that I would be devastated if we were in a committed, monogamous relationship. So of course, it's a devastating thing. — Jenny Slate
For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship. — Warren Beatty
People in long-term, monogamous relationships are crushed by the expectation that a partner is going to provide everything they are looking for and wondering why they are dissatisfied when they have four of the ten boxes checked. — Steve Almond
Polygamy Quotes
I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach. — David Ogilvy
If we are going to do away with polygamy, it would only be one feather in the bird, one ordinance in the Church and Kingdom. Do away with that, then we must do away with the prophets and apostles, with revelation and the gifts and graces of the Gospel, and finally give up our religion altogether. — Wilford Woodruff
This doctrine of polygamy, or spiritual wife-system, that has been taught and practiced among us, will prove our destruction and overthrow. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
I speak of plurality of wives as one of the most holy principles that God ever revealed to man, and all those who exercise an influence against it, unto whom it is taught, man or woman will be damned, and they and all who will be influenced by them, will suffer the buffetings of Satan in the flesh. — Heber C. Kimball
The Lord showed me by vision and revelation what would happen if we did not stop this practice... all ordinances would be stopped... many men would be made prisoners... I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write. — John Andreas Widtsoe
Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned; and I will go still further, and say that this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord had given, and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned. — Brigham Young
Loving everybody is polygamy. I care for no friend who loves his enemy equally well. — E. W. Howe
I discover that some of the Eastern papers represent me as a great blasphemer, because I said, in my lecture on Marriage, at our last Conference, that Jesus Christ was married at Cana of Galilee, that Mary, Martha, and others were his wives, and that he begat children. — Orson Pratt
Talk about polygamy! There is no true philosopher on the face of the earth but what will admit that such a system, properly carried out according to the order of heaven, is far superior to monogamy for the raising of healthy, robust children! — Brigham Young
I think no more of taking another wife than I do of buying a cow. — Heber C. Kimball
Infidelity Quotes
The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim. — Marco Polo
The law which their prophet Mohamed has given to muslims is that any harm done to any one who does not accept their law and any appropriation of his goods, is no sin at all. — Marco Polo
Should one permit an infidel to continue in his role as a Corrupter of the Earth, the moral suffering of the infidel will be all the worse. Should one kill the infidel, and this stops him from perpetrating his misdeeds, his death will be a blessing to him. — Ruhollah Khomeini
We're not attacking Islam but Islam has attacked us. The God of Islam is not the same God. It's a different God, and I believe it [Islam] is a very evil and wicked religion. — Franklin Graham
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. — Thomas Jefferson
Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages. — Frank Pittman
The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations. — August Strindberg
Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does. — Ambrose Bierce
Borrowed wives, like borrowed books, are seldom returned. — American Proverbs
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it. — Benjamin Carson
Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord; Count to ten, and man is bored. With this the gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it? — Dorothy Parker
It is a fact worthy of note that the shortest lived nations of which we have record have been monogamic. Rome...was a monogamic nation and the numerous evils attending that system early laid the foundation for that ruin which eventually overtook her. — George Q. Cannon
The growth of property and the desire for its transmission to children was, in reality, the moving power which brought in monogamy to insure legitimate heirs, and to limit their number to the actual progeny of the married pair. — Lewis Henry Morgan
The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error. — George Bernard Shaw
Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practiced it. 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' It is the only popular religion there. — Brigham Young
Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow. — Marilyn Monroe
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. — Dan Savage
A monogamous marriage and family is what some women want - but not all of us. We are mostly doing serial monogamy anyway. — Betty Dodson
I don't believe [monogamy] is realistic. But, I believe that we, as people, have the power to make it happen. — Kate Hudson
I don't think [being monogamous] is a natural instinct for human beings, but it doesn't mean I don't believe in monogamy or true love. I believe in finding a soul mate. 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
I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation. — Sting
I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better. — Nancy Friday
This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting nature and character under which modern Christendom groans. — Orson Pratt
[On STDs] This be Nature’s way of recommending monogamy. — Martin Amis
Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny, the way monogamy is funny, the way someone falling down in the street is funny. I entered a revolving door and emerged as a human being. When you think of me is my face electronically blurred? — Jeffrey McDaniel
You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy. — Rich Lowry
I don't know, monogamy is a weird thing for me. — Sienna Miller
Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve. — Sienna Miller
I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us. — Tom Ford
I think serial monogamy says it all. — Tracey Ullman
I certainly do believe in monogamy. I don't believe that it's for everyone. I don't believe that marriage is for everyone. So much of life is begging to be chosen how it wants to be lived. Much more than most of us realize. — Colin Farrell
I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you. — Candice Bergen
Today, monogamy is one person at a time. — Esther Perel
Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but its not enough. — John Patrick Shanley
Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony. — Rita Rudner
The two-thirds rule of the Senate, which can be changed only by constitutional amendment, will no doubt continue for a long time to come. Like monogamy, it is not completely satisfactory, but, like monogamy, it has won general if somewhat grudging acquiescence. — Thomas A. Bailey
I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved. — K. D. Lang
Monogamy is a possibility - and a necessity. Kids have got to have something they can rely on. You have got to have something you rely on. — Bob Hoskins
I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life. — Maria Bello
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
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