Quotes of Polygamy - somelinesforyou

“ Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife, you are sure to have a spiritual harem. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ God invented concubinage, Satan marriage. ”

- Francis Picabia

“ The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract… ”

- Anthony Burgess

“ 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
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