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Quotes about Polygamy

Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
— 1 Chronicles 4:5
And David took more wives in Jerusalem and became the father of more sons and daughters.
— 1 Chronicles 14:3
Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
— 2 Chronicles 11:21
But Abijah grew strong, married fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
— 2 Chronicles 13:21
Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.
— 2 Chronicles 24:3
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".
— GK Chesterton
A man who did not have but one wife in the Resurrection that woman will not be his but be taken from him & given to another.
— Brigham Young
Seven hundred wives, and three hundred concubines, are worse than none; and, however it may carry with the appearance of heightened enjoyment, it defeats all the felicity of affection, by leaving it no point to fix upon; divided love is never happy.
— Thomas Paine
The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy
— Brigham Young