Divorced Quotes

• I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again.

  Don Adams

  Wife, Catholic, Church

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• I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.

  Placido Domingo

  Father, Married

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• My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

  Eliza Dushku

  Mother, Feminist, Parent

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• How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

  Jeff Gannon

  Reality, People, Going To Work

  Jeff Gannon (2007). “The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report”, Iuniverse Inc

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• Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

  Mark Hoppus

  Dad, Kids, Parent

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• Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.

  Arthur Godfrey

  Beautiful, Mom, Daughter

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• To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Occupation, Might, Certain

  "Gauss-Schumacher Briefwechsel". Book by Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1862.

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• Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Essence, Transcendentalism, Objects

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.33, Harvard University Press

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• Ive been married three times and divorced three times.

  Rick Wakeman

  Three, Married, Three Times

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• When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.

  Phil Donahue

  Kids, People, Gumption

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a "solution" to stress, only as a way to end one form of pain and accept another.

  Fred Rogers

  Couple, Pain, Children

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• I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

  Bianca Jagger

  Media, Want, Forget

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• Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Divorce, Literature

  A Guide to Men "Divorces" (1922)

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• If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.24, BookBaby

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• Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Mother, Children, Father

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• In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

  Garry Trudeau

  Spring, Divorce, Thinking

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• You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.

  Mike Tyson

  Sleep, Divorce, Cutting

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  A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

  Margaret Atwood

  Broken Heart, Lost Love, Divorce

  Quoted in Time, 19 Mar. 1973

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• When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Single, Divorce

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.70, Lulu.com

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• Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Single, Sexy

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

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• Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.

  Craig Ferguson

  Fear, Divorce, Knowing

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• A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

  Jean Kerr

  Jobs, Divorce, Friendly

  Jean Kerr (1965). “Mary, Mary”, p.33, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Relationship, Money

  Helen Rowland (2017). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.42, Litres

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• People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship.

  Gary Chapman

  Divorce, Intimate Relationships, Skills

  Gary Chapman (2010). “Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married”, p.10, Moody Publishers

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• 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Funny, Life

  In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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