Bigamy Quotes

• Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Sexy

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• Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.

  Bob Hope

  Two, Funny Marriage, Comedy

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• Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

  Oliver Herford

  Marriage, Divorce, Way

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• There once was an old man of Lyme who married three wives at a time when asked, 'Why a third?' he replied 'One's absurd! and bigamy, sir, is a crime!'

  William Cosmo Monkhouse

  Men, Wife, Funny Marriage

  "There Once Was an Old Man of Lyme" l. 1 (date unknown)

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• No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.

  Judy Biggert

  Children, Issues, Age

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• Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mistake, Punishment, Taste

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.22, 谷月社

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• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Anger, Reading

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 19 (1891)

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• In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

  Garry Kasparov

  Chess, Monarchy, Acceptable

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.59, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much...
  ...Monogamy ? It's the same.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wife, Funny Marriage, Too Much

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• Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Night, Oysters, Joy

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• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895). The same lines appear, as a dialogue between Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Allonby, in A Woman of No Importance, act 2 (1893).

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• I have such hatred of divorce that I prefer bigamy to divorce. Anyway, I think we should see other people.

  Martin Luther

  Divorce, Thinking, People

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• Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

  Moliere

  Marriage, Two, Wife

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• Bigamy is two rites that make a wrong.

  Jacob Braude

  Two, Rite

  Jacob Morton Braude (1965). “Definitions and toasts”

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• The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.

  Mark Twain

  Eight, Wife, Religion

  Mark Twain (1984). “The Innocents Abroad ; Roughing it”, p.290, Library of America

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