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

  Aldous Huxley

  Romance, Energy, Impulse

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• Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.

  Esther Perel

  Loyalty, Expression, Trouble

  Twitter post from Sep 22, 2014

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Wife, Funny Marriage, Too Much

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

  Nora Ephron

  Swans, Ifs

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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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• 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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• Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.

  Wallace Stegner

  Loyalty, Lying, Hands

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• Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy.

  Ellen Key

  Strife, Has Beens, Perpetual

  Ellen Key (1911). “Love and Marriage”

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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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• I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.

  Tom Ford

  Thinking, Artificial

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• I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.

  Rashida Jones

  Skepticism

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• This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting nature and character under which modern Christendom groans.

  Orson Pratt

  Character, Law, Evil

  Orson Pratt (1874). “The Bible & Polygamy: Does the Bible Sanction Polygamy? A Discussion Between Professor Orson Pratt and Rev. Doctor J.P. Newman in the New Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, August 12, 13, and 14, 1870”, p.83

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• Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.

  Huey Long

  Funny, Work, Umpires

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