Divorce Quotes - Page 36

• Divorce has become so easy nowadays that women have stopped crying at weddings.

  Evan Esar

  Cry, Easy

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• An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.

  Evan Esar

  Wit, Wit And Wisdom, Epigrams

  Evan Esar (1978). “The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and History of Humor Containing Thousands of Gags, Sayings, and Stories”, Doubleday Books

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• I am learning that mature faith, which encompasses both simple faith and fidelity, works the opposite of paranoia. It reassembles all the events of life around trust in a loving God. When good things happen, I accept them as gifts from God, worthy of thanksgiving. When bad things happen, I do not take them as necessarily sent by God -- I see evidence in the Bible to the contrary -- and I find in them no reason to divorce God. Rather, I trust that God can use even those bad things for my benefit.

  Philip Yancey

  Simple, Opposites, Events

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide”, p.28, Zondervan

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• Initiating and going through a divorce with four kids can be a brutal experience, but also a tempering one. It gave me perspective and insight to be able to find the love of my life.

  Tony Robbins

  Kids, Love Of My Life, Perspective

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We deal with people that are going through divorces and that are facing life-threatening illnesses, and I'm giving them hope. And to me, I don't think there's anything "lite" about that.

  Joel Osteen

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "Pastor Joel Osteen on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 23, 2007.

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• My divorce has changed my life. I don’t cry anymore. My bad dreams are starting to go away. I feel stronger, as if all these ordeals have toughened me. When I go out in the street, sometimes women in the neighborhood call to me, congratulating me and shouting ‘Mabrouk!’ – a word once tainted by evil memories, but which I know like to hear again. And shouted by women I don’t even know! I blush, but deep down I’m so proud.

  Nujood Ali

  Dream, Memories, Evil

  Nujood Ali, Delphine Minoui (2010). “I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced”, p.129, Broadway Books

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• Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.

  Rashid al-Ghannushi

  Husband, Law, Total Equality

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• Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.

  William Faulkner

  Couple, Men, Feet

  William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”

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• Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time.

  William Carlos Williams

  Our Time

  1946 Paterson, bk.1,'The Delineaments of the Giants', 2.

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• People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.

  Margaret Mead

  People, Stills, Absorbing

  "Male and Female". Book by Margaret Mead, 1949.

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• Judge and prosecutor had hammered it home that Lady Chatterly was an immoral woman, that she had had sexual relations before marriage, that she had committed adultery under her husband's roof; as if these charges somehow disqualified her from participation in serious literature. Indeed, there were long periods of the trial during which an outsider might well have assumed that a divorce case was being heard.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Husband, Home, Long

  "Lady Chatterly's Trial (The Old Bailey, 20 October - 2 November 1960)". "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 409, 1967.

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• Commenting on paternity establishment programs: What these millions of children want and need is not a name on a form or a promise that the sheriff will arrest these guys if they don't pay child support. What they want and need is in-the-home, love-the-mother fathers,. . .

  David Blankenhorn

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

  Chuck Eddy

  Growing Up, White, People

  Chuck Eddy (2011). “Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism”, p.205, Duke University Press

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• Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and obscenity of divorce is unknown where individuals have not become Siamese twins.

  Germaine Greer

  Interesting, Lovers, Twins

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• If a tree falls in the forest and kills your ex-wife, what do you do with the lumber?

  Neil S. Plakcy

  Fall, Wife, Tree

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• I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.

  Agatha Christie

  Fashion, Mistake, Thinking

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• A divorce party - that's really better than a wedding party

  Nujood Ali

  Party, Wedding Party

  Nujood Ali, Delphine Minoui (2010). “I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced”, p.126, Broadway Books

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• In the divorce my ex got everything. Even kept her composure

  Tom Franklin

  Composure, Exes

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• For those who believe in the quote, Laughter is the best medicine and are looking for a divorce quote on the lighter side, the following divorce sayings range from mildly humorous to outrageously funny:
  Men are just like a book - with a beginning, middle and an end.

  Pamela Anderson

  Laughter, Humorous, Believe

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• Workaholicism is such a tough addiction to get over. I had to divorce my wife because she was an enabler.

  Dave Mordal

  Funny, Wife, Addiction

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• What happened? Satan was busy?

  Sam Kinison

  Funny, Satan, Busy

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• I can't take his genius any more.

  Rita Hayworth

  Funny, Genius, I Can

  "The Cigar That Fell in Love With a Pipe review - David Camus and Nick Abadzis revisit Welles and Hayworth" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2014.

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• It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Women, Wells, Old Woman

  George Bernard Shaw (2004). “The Philanderer”, p.53, 1st World Publishing

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• In the beginning, you tamp down the animosity for the kids' sake. I'm not going to deny that I went through the wringer. But I don't think I doubted we'd end up here. That was always my dream, that the kids can have two loving parents that show respect for each other. And I feel that's what they have.

  Elin Nordegren

  Dream, Kids, Thinking

  "Elin Nordegren Breaks Her 4-Year Silence on Tiger Woods" by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, people.com. May 21, 2014.

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• I know I will have to come to forgiveness and acceptance of what has happened for me to go on and be happy in the future. And I know I will get there eventually. I wish him all the best in the future, as a person and as an athlete ... I feel privileged to have witnessed a part of his golfing career.

  Elin Nordegren

  Athlete, Acceptance, Careers

  "Elin Nordegren Breaks Silence: The Word 'Betrayal' Isn't Strong Enough", www.foxnews.com. August 25, 2010.

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