Marriage And Divorce Quotes - Page 2

• She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.

  Tommy Manville

  Marriage, Divorce, Judging

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• Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Divorce, Heartfelt, Tragedy

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• The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Divorce, Firsts, Life Is

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• Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Sarcastic, Wedding

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• There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

  Erica Jong

  Marriage, Rhythm, Courtship

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.

  Warren Farrell

  Divorce, Boxing, Legal System

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• I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

  Gloria Swanson

  Book, Divorce, Given

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

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• Divorce is the price people play for playing with matches.

  Evan Esar

  Divorce, Play, People

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• Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. Honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

  Larry Gelbart

  Funny, Witty, Divorce

  "Fictional character: Maj. Frank Burns". TV Series "M*A*S*H", 1972-1983.

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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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• It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

  Oscar Wilde

  Divorce, Broken, Bondage

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (1998). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.33, Oxford University Press, USA

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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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• Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Marriage, Sympathy, Divorce

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.122, Grove/Atlantic, 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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• The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is not in separation. It is in simple integrity that leads a man and a woman to square up their shoulders and meet their obligations. It is found in the Golden Rule, a time-honored principle that should first and foremost find expression in marriage.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Stress, Integrity, Divorce

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.155, Harmony

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• My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.

  Joyce Brothers

  Marriage, Husband, Divorce

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• Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

  Simone Signoret

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

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• Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones.

  Joan Rivers

  Breakup, Divorce, Insightful

  Joan Rivers (1997). “Bouncing back: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!”, Thorndike Pr

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• There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

  Erica Jong

  Marriage, Broken Heart, Divorce

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.

  Roseanne Barr

  Divorce, Insightful, Way

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• Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Real, Divorce, Gay

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

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• The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.

  Jess C Scott

  Divorce, Hands, Together

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• Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Divorce, People, Hollywood

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• In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.

  Erica Jong

  Passion, Divorce, Motherhood

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.15, Penguin

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