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

  Beach, Humorous, Successful

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy

  Brigham Young

  Son, Men, Exaltation

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.269

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• Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it

  Elbert Hubbard

  Marriage, Literature, Endeavour

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• 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

  Giving Up, Bird, Grace

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• Children of polygamists besides being equally as bright and brighter intellectually, are much more healthy and strong.

  George Q. Cannon

  Strong, Children, Healthy

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• Yes, polygamy is one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David, Solomon, the Prophets, of Jesus, and his apostles.

  Brigham Young

  Jesus, Moses, Prophet

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.328

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• Plural marriage is not essential to salvation or exaltation.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Exaltation, Essentials, Salvation

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• 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

  Wife, Feelings, Promise

  Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.266

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• 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

  Children, Order, Heaven

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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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• I'm monogamous from time to time, but I prefer polygamy and polyandry.

  Carla Bruni

  "Sacre Bleu: It's Official!" by Lama Hasan, abcnews.go.com. February 3, 2008.

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• I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment.

  Oliver Cowdery

  Judgment, Revelations, Authority

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• Polygamy has an ancient history and is legal in many parts of the world. I find the rules of polygamy to be damaging and it's potentially dangerous to young girls and terrible for "excess" boys. But polyamory is supposed to be a more equal arrangement among agreeing adults.

  Emily Yoffe

  Girl, Boys, Excess

  Source: www.slate.com

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• When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on - series polygamy - until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Relationship, Wedding

  "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.

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• If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned.

  George Q. Cannon

  Believe, Command, Has Beens

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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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• 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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• It is the duty of a woman to be obedient to her husband, and unless she is, I would not give a damn for all her queenly right and authority; nor for her either, if she will quarrel, and lie about the work of God and the principle of plurality.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Husband, Lying, Giving

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• The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy. Others attain unto a glory and may even be permitted to come into the presence of the Father and the Son; but they cannot reign as kings in glory, because they had blessing offered unto them, and they refused to accept them.

  Brigham Young

  Kings, Father, Son

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.269

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• Obviously the holy practice (of polygamy) will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in of the millennium.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Son, Men, Practice

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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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• A few years ago one of my wives, when talking about wives leaving their husbands said, 'I wish my husband's wives would leave him, every soul of them except myself.' That is the way they all feel, more or less, at times, both old and young.

  Brigham Young

  Husband, Years, Talking

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• 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

  Spiritual, Women, Long

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• Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if he had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had to go hungry for years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Two, Years

  Mark Twain (2008). “Letters from the Earth: Easyread Edition”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The First Command was to 'Multiply' and the Prophet taught us that Dominion & powr in the great Future would be Comensurate with the no [number] of 'Wives Childin & Friends' that we inheret here and that our great mission to earth was to Organize a Neculi of Heaven to take with us. To the increase of which there would be no end.

  Benjamin F. Johnson

  Taught Us, Numbers, Wife

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