Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.
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.
Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
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!'
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much... ...Monogamy ? It's the same.
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.
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.
Bigamy is two rites that make a wrong.
I have such hatred of divorce that I prefer bigamy to divorce. Anyway, I think we should see other people.
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