“Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch’s wife, He would have written sonnets all his life? George Noel Gordon (Lord Byron)
“Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened, sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises. Robert Burns
“At its best monogamy may be the wish to find someone to die with; at its worst it is a cure for the terrors of aliveness. They are easily confused.Adam Phillips