Marriage Quote by John R. Bradley

I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

— Moliere

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

— Abigail Van Buren

Many Westerners forget that when the Prophet spoke of four wives as the maximum allowable number, he had in mind a reduction to four…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Actually, there is a sense in which polygynous marriage has not been the historical norm - even where polygyny is permitted, multiple wives are…

— Robert Wright

I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.

— Martin Luther

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

— George Bernard Shaw

Whereas a man is entitled to marry three more times and that fosters great abuse, even scholars accept that. So certainly since the 1980s…

— Sadakat Kadri

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as possible

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Oscar Wilde

One wife is too much for most husbands to bear, But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.

— John Gay

It is not always possible or even right for a man to make his wife number one in his life. This is due to…

— Helen Andelin