Alimony Quotes

• Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

  Groucho Marx

  Marriage, Funny Love, Witty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them continues to pay for it.

  Peggy Hopkins Joyce

  Marriage, Mistake, Two

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• Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Devil, Ransom

  A Little Book in C Major ch. 6 (1916)

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• If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price we have to pay for sweeping a woman off hers.

  Groucho Marx

  Government, Feet, Income

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• You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

  John Barrymore

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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• Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.

  Robin Williams

  Money, Heart, Divorce

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Damage, Claims, Should

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2011). “Families, Marriages, and Children”, p.55, Transaction Publishers

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• I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not by much

  Don Adams

  Children, Support, Jokes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.

  Dick Schaap

  Wonderful, Muse, Driven

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• The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.

  Fannie Hurst

  Divorce, Army, Men

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• Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Divorce, Men, Class

  "Louder and Funnier". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1932.

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• Sometimes they would just pay me to stay home and not do anything else, which sounds fantastic but doesn't do much for your ego. Its probably a little like getting alimony - the money is nice but has a nasty aftertaste.

  Craig Ferguson

  Nice, Home, Ego

  "Frequently Asked Questions / What happened to Craig Ferguson (Mr. Wick)?". "The Drew Carey Show", www.imdb.com. 1995 - 2004.

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• People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.

  Gay Talese

  Girl, People, Lasts

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. July 6, 2006.

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• The wages of sin is alimony.

  Carolyn Wells

  Infidelity, Wages, Sin

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• L.A. ispolluted. It's overpopulated. But it is very much home. It was inevitable for me, the moving back. I was living in San Francisco, and Joan broke it off with me, and I needed a place to live. I'd been divorced. And I needed to write movies and TV shows to earn a living. Alimony. All that. So I figured what the hell, I'll go back to L.A.

  James Ellroy

  Moving, Home, Writing

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

  Linda Evans

  Independent, Careers, Second Marriage

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• Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

  Norman Mailer

  Writing, Class, Curse

  "The pugilist who wrote the story of America" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2007.

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• In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands.

  Diane Garnick

  Husband, Welfare Programs, Social

  "Men Receiving Alimony Want A Little Respect" by Anita Raghavan, www.wsj.com. April 1, 2008.

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• I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Men, Insane, Single Man

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• Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.

  Quentin Crisp

  Littles, Knows

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 26, 1968.

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• Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

  Oliver Herford

  Marriage, Divorce, Way

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• My mother didn't feel sorry for herself, she was left with no child support, no alimony at a very young age, with a child to raise, a high school education and she just figured it out. She didn't complain, she didn't rely upon government, she relied upon her own skill set, her own self confidence, her own drive in moxie and her own duty to me and her and she relied upon her family and her faith.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Mother, Sorry, Children

  CPAC Interview, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. February 23, 2017.

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• I'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks.

  Burt Reynolds

  Children, Two, Support

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The novel is final form; it's the ultimate individual final form. Television and motion pictures never get there. You'd be fabulous to think that something you write is even going to be filmed. I give it the best shot of which I'm capable. But it's more a payday for me. And if I didn't have alimony and the full-time assistant.

  James Ellroy

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam to pay alimony to Eve, not Steve.

  Lewis Black

  Hate, Divorce, Men

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