Monogamy Quotes

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Sexy

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• Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

  Warren Beatty

  Acting, Special, Genius

  "Celebrities Who Have NEVER Been Divorced" by Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2015.

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• 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

  Errors, Race, Confusing

  "Man and Superman". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1903.

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• We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

  Erica Jong

  Cynical, Morality, Driven

  Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.110, Penguin

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• Men think monogamy is something you make dining tables out of.

  Kathy Lette

  Funny, Women, Cocky

  FaceBook post by Kathy Lette from Feb 25, 2013

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• Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman Empire... Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. Thus this monogamic order of marriage, so esteemed by modern Christians as a hold sacrament and divine institution, is nothing but a system established by a set of robbers.

  Brigham Young

  Christian, Men, Order

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• Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Romance, Energy, Impulse

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• Why would so many risk their reputations, families, careers—even presidential legacies—for something that runs against human nature? Were monogamy an ancient, evolved trait characteristic of our species, as the standard narrative insists, these ubiquitous transgressions would be infrequent and such horrible enforcement unnecessary. No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature.

  Christopher Ryan

  Running, Careers, Presidential

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• If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

  Nora Ephron

  Swans, Ifs

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• The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among them, and hence this monogamic system which now prevails throughout all Christendom, and which has been so fruitful a source of prostitution and whoredom throughout all the Christian monogamic cities of the Old and New World, until rottenness and decay are at the root of their institutions both national and religious.

  Brigham Young

  Christian, Religious, Roots

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.128

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• Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

  Mason Cooley

  Book, Reading, Past

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• 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

  Kids, Possibility, Rely

  "This much I know: Bob Hoskins". Interview with Bob Hoskins, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2010.

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• 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

  Fun, Moon, Love Is

  Not So Deep as a Well (1937) "General Review of the Sex Situation"

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• 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

  Lasts, Roller Coaster, Coasters

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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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• Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but its not enough.

  John Patrick Shanley

  Enough, Bulbs

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• For example, most mammals are either monogamous or polygamous. But as every poet or divorce attorney will tell you, humans are confused - After all, we have monogamy, polygamy, polyandry, celibacy, and so on. In terms of the most unique thing we do socially, my vote goes to something we invented alongside cities - we have lots of anonymous interactions and interactions with strangers. That has shaped us enormously.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Confused, Divorce, Unique

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.

  Adam Phillips

  Way, Minimum, Versions

  Adam Phillips (2017). “Monogamy”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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• I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

  Candice Bergen

  Believe, I Believe, Let Me

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• 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

  Believe, Practice, Heaven

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• 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

  Couple, Believe, Decide Upon

  "What I know about women". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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• It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.

  Annie Besant

  Sight, Wife, Mistress

  "Cultural and Religious Heritage of India: Islam". Book by Suresh K. Sharma, Usha Sharm, 2004.

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• We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if they envy our position, well they may, for they are a poor, narrow minded, pinch-backed race of man, who chain themselves down to the law of monogamy and live all their days under the dominion of one wife. They aught to be ashamed of such conduct, and the still fouler channel which flows from their practices.

  George A. Smith

  Men, Race, Air

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• 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

  Rome, Evil, Records

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• 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

  Believe, Hard Work, Mean

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