A Quote by Annie Besant

It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.

Annie Besant

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Legal Monogamy Out Sight Wife

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Annie Besant
English - Philosopher
October 1, 1847 - September 20, 1933

Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

Hector Hugh Munro

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

A survey released today found that men spend twice as much on their mistresses for Christmas as they do on their wives. On the other hand, men spend half their income on the wives when the wife finds out about the mistress. So it all balances out.

Jay Leno

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

Donald Trump is not an immigrant basher. His mother was a legal immigrant. His wife is a legal immigrant. He employs legal immigrants. He just likes his immigrants to be legal.

Newt Gingrich

Every man is a bachelor out of his wife's sight!

Margaret Way

I had met my now wife, Sheryl, and was attempting my first try at monogamy, which was not really in my nature at the time, and I wasn't able to do it.

Rob Lowe

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

I got divorced from my wife on June 6, 2006. Yeah, 6-6-06, which coincidentally, was when my wife turned into a demon spawned from Satan's anus. But for legal reasons, I have to call her, Kate.

Christopher Titus

The two-thirds rule of the Senate, which can be changed only by constitutional amendment, will no doubt continue for a long time to come. Like monogamy, it is not completely satisfactory, but, like monogamy, it has won general if somewhat grudging acquiescence.

Thomas A. Bailey

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

Dan Savage

In separating out, say, legal and moral requirements, I tend to work with paradigms rather than strict divisions - eg, paradigmatically, legal requirements are jurisdictionally bound whereas ethical requirements are aspirationally universal; ethical requirements focus especially on intentions whereas legal requirements focus primarily on conduct; ethical requirements take priority over legal requirements; and so on.