Bigamy Quotes:

Bigamy is two rites that make a wrong.

- Jacob Braude

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

topic: Two, Bigamy, Rite

In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

- Garry Kasparov

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

topic: Chess, Bigamy, Monarchy, Absolute Monarchy

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

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Marriage, Witty, Marriage Jokes, Wordplay

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

- Bob Hope

topic: Two, Funny Marriage, Crime, Bigamy

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

- Oliver Herford

topic: Marriage, Divorce, Way, Alimony, Bigamy

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

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

topic: Men, Wife, Funny Marriage, Bigamy

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

topic: Children, Issues, Age, Polygamy, Constitutional Amendments

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

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Mistake, Punishment, Taste, Bigamy

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

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Inspirational, Book, Reading, Inspirational Reading, Inspiring Book

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

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Wife, Funny Marriage, Too Much, 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.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Night, Oysters, Joy, Joy Ride, Free Advice

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

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Mothers Day, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

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

- Martin Luther

topic: Divorce, Thinking, People, Bigamy

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

- Moliere

topic: Marriage, Two, Wife, Bigamy

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

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

topic: Eight, Wife, Religion, Bigamy