Quote by Charles Bukowski

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.

— Abigail Van Buren

“It was quite normal in that day for a man to use up three or four wives in a normal lifetime.”

— John Steinbeck

Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.

— Will Cuppy

And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and…

— Bible

“My wife's name was Mala. The marriage had been arranged by my older brother and his wife. I regarded the proposition with neither objection…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“There was once a king, and he had a queen; and he was the manliest of his gender, and she was the loveliest of…

— Charles Dickens

Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to…

— John Gabriel Stedman

“All the queens of my acquaintance have children, some three, some seven, and some as many as twelve; and my queen has not one.…

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

“I started writing my original scripts replete with kings and queens who lived in the cities and did not want their children to marry…

— S. A. David

Brother Cannon remarked that people wondered how many wives and children I had. He may inform them that I shall have wives and children…

— Brigham Young

Solomon'sexcess became an insult upon the privileges of mankind; for by the same plan of luxury, which made it necessary to have forty thousand…

— Laurence Sterne

“one may scarcely find one man among seven women, so many women are there widowed whilst their husbands are alive’.”

— Lisa Hilton