The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
~By Lemuel K. Washburn ~
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.
~By Arthur Godfrey ~
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
~By Vera Brittain ~
They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window.
~By Suze Orman ~
When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.
~By Claire Danes ~
I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues.
~By Paula Danziger ~
I wanted to work; it's not right for a princess of the royal house to be commercial, so Andrew and I decided to make the divorce official so I could go off and get a job.
~By Sarah Ferguson ~
Today, one year after their divorce, Pamela and Tommy Lee announced they're getting back together. You know what that means? There's still hope for Ike and Tina Turner.
~By Jay Leno ~
I'd like to give divorce a good name.
~By Geraldo Rivera ~
In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
~By G. B. Trudeau ~
Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
~By Ben Affleck ~
At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn't really see fighting.
~By Kato Kaelin ~
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.
~By Helen Rowland ~
You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
~By Zsa Zsa Gabor ~
Divorce is a game played by lawyers.
~By Cary Grant ~
Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it.
~By Wally Schirra ~
I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
Yes, the divorce was difficult. It was difficult.
~By Priscilla Presley ~
Mr. President, How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?
~By Jeff Gannon ~
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
~By Helen Rowland ~
I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.
~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?
~By Bob Geldof ~
I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
~By Natalie Portman ~
I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
~By Dinah Sheridan ~
How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.
~By Lucille Ball ~
There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.
~By Michael Douglas ~
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
~By Tertullian ~
But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess.
~By Michael Hutchence ~
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
~By John Keats ~
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
~By Robert Anderson ~
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
~By Lauren Bacall ~
I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance.
~By Sarah Ferguson ~
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.
~By Monica Bellucci ~
What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce.
~By Claire Trevor ~
Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible.
~By Diana Ross ~
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book.
~By Marvin Mitchelson ~
I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
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.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce.
~By Emma Bonino ~
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
~By Margaret Atwood ~
When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there.
~By Martina Hingis ~
Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel.
~By Brian Celio ~
I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
~By Kurt Cobain ~
When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.
~By Phil Donahue ~
Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.
~By Zsa Zsa Gabor ~
The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.
~By Annette Funicello ~
Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances.
~By Maria Bartiromo ~
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
~By Ellen Goodman ~
My second wife Bonnie Owens and I worked together after we divorced for a period of maybe 20 years. And I managed to stay friends with another wife. And then there's one that I don't mess with. Everybody's got one of those.
~By Merle Haggard ~
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
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.
~By Todd Tiahrt ~
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.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.
~By William P. Leahy ~
Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance.
~By Juliette Binoche ~
There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
~By Norman Mailer ~
The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.
~By William Irwin Thompson ~
American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.
~By Elinor Glyn ~
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
~By Jack Benny ~
Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They're worth it.
~By Henny Youngman ~
My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.
~By Christina Aguilera ~
Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.
~By Eddie Marsan ~
Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.
~By Anna Held ~
Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.
~By Allan Sherman ~
As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don't know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds.
~By Richard H. Davis ~
In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.
~By Dan Dailey ~
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.
~By Don Adams ~
One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.
~By Robert Byrne ~
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
~By Washington Irving ~
The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.
~By Arlie Hochschild ~
I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house.
~By Zsa Zsa Gabor ~
She divorced me August 10 of 2000, but she never was able to completely get rid of me. Don't ask me why.
~By Jim Lampley ~
A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short.
~By Mickey Rooney ~
I firmly believe in marriage. It's a real important decision that takes a lot of dedication and time. If you're thinking about divorce. You shouldn't get married.
~By Seth Green ~
A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.
~By Anna Magnani ~
And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.
~By Vince Gill ~
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
~By Zsa Zsa Gabor ~
I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
~By Lucille Ball ~
I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on. And that was just me.
~By Harvey Korman ~
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.
~By Carl Friedrich Gauss ~
I wish we'd never got divorced. He and I both wish we'd never got divorced, but we did. I wish I could go back and be the bride again, but I can't.
~By Sarah Ferguson ~
With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
~By Vince Gill ~
France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America."
~By Helen Rowland ~
When I got divorced and moved into an apartment, I started keeping the TV on, just for company.
~By Mark Harmon ~
Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.
~By Boy George ~
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
~By Jean Kerr ~
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
~By Edith Wharton ~
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
~By Clare Boothe Luce ~
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
~By Voltaire ~
Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.
~By Betty Hill ~
She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him.
~By Priscilla Presley ~
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me.
~By Elayne Boosler ~
I went through a divorce right as we were starting the show. My divorce became final right after we started shooting the first year, and during that time I was in such a low place.
~By Lee Tergesen ~
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