Polygamy Quotes

When you're working with a series that's as interesting as one about polygamy, you want to make sure it raises people's curiosity. - Ian Schafer

When you and I and the average Joe on the street think about polygamy, it's usually what we've read about it -- the compounds beyond city limits, the child brides, women being kept in a cultish fashion. The creators saw the show for what it was ... kind of a weird way to refract contemporary mores about marriage. - Bill Paxton

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 dimensions 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

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. - G. K. Chesterton

The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy. - Henry Louis Mencken

The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists. - Jeanne Tripplehorn

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. - Anthony Burgess

Stick with us through the year. We do feel very much a responsibility not to give short shrift to the abuses of polygamy. - Mark Olsen

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it. - Elbert Hubbard

POLYGAMY, n. A house of atonement, or expiatory chapel, fitted with several stools of repentance, as distinguished from monogamy, which has but one. - Ambrose Bierce