I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.
~By Jay Mohr ~
I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
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 ~
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
~By Denis Diderot ~
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
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.
~By Mark Hoppus ~
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
~By Edith Wharton ~
How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
~By Lee Trevino ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
~By Mary Wesley ~
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 ~
There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
~By Aimee Mann ~
I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on. And that was just me.
~By Harvey Korman ~
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 ~
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
~By Lauren Bacall ~
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.
~By Jean Kerr ~
Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.
~By Bob Geldof ~
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 ~
Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They're worth it.
~By Henny Youngman ~
Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
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.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
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 ~
There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.
~By Michael Douglas ~
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 ~
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
~By Voltaire ~
I'd like to give divorce a good name.
~By Geraldo Rivera ~
A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.
~By Susan Faludi ~
If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.
~By Al Goldstein ~
I'm not saying that people should not divorce, but at the rate at which it happens here is sick. The kids, they suffer. I don't care what anyone says.
~By Eric Braeden ~
I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
~By Dinah Sheridan ~
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 ~
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 ~
Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.
~By Richard Wagner ~
I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
~By Kurt Cobain ~
Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
~By Robin Williams ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.
~By Michael Chabon ~
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 ~
I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
~By Mary Garden ~
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 ~
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 ~
I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.
~By Ricky Skaggs ~
Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.
~By Zsa Zsa Gabor ~
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 ~
People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!
~By Don Johnson ~
France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America."
~By Helen Rowland ~
I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.
~By Anne Heche ~
Mr. President, How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?
~By Jeff Gannon ~
The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
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 ~
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 ~
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.
~By Betty Hill ~
The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.
~By Kieran Culkin ~
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
~By Jim Morrison ~
The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.
~By Annette Funicello ~
In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.
~By Suzanne Vega ~
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 have a long track record of really horrible relationships and a divorce behind me; so I'm not the guy to ask. I just got really fortunate with this one.
~By James Denton ~
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
~By Ellen Goodman ~
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 ~
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
~By Voltaire ~
I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.
~By Buddy Guy ~
I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.
~By John Milius ~
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 ~
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 ~
To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.
~By James Caan ~
Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel.
~By Brian Celio ~
My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
~By Lee Trevino ~
Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.
~By Gerald F. Lieberman ~
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 ~
You can not 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 ~
I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house.
~By Zsa Zsa Gabor ~
I've been married three times and divorced three times.
~By Rick Wakeman ~
I lived a really wonderful life with this man and even after our divorce, it was incredible.
~By Priscilla Presley ~
A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book.
~By Marvin Mitchelson ~
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
~By Helen Rowland ~
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 ~
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 ~
He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.
~By Zsa Zsa Gabor ~
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
~By James MacGregor Burns ~
Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.
~By Mary Kay Blakely ~
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
~By Tertullian ~
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 didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance.
~By Sarah Ferguson ~
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'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 ~
Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.
~By Douglas Feith ~
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 ~
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