Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet. ~By Robin Williams ~
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course. ~By Helen Rowland ~
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 ~
Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash. ~By Rita Mae Brown ~
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. ~By Jim Morrison ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I'd like to give divorce a good name. ~By Geraldo Rivera ~
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul. ~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel. ~By Brian Celio ~
The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther. ~By Sharon Gless ~
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 ~
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 ~
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. ~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
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 ~
Sometimes divorce is better than marriage. ~By Sumner Redstone ~
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 ~
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 ~
In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers. ~By G. B. Trudeau ~
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 ~
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 ~
Mr. President, How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality? ~By Jeff Gannon ~
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 mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money. ~By Wendy Liebman ~
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 ~
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 ~
They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window. ~By Suze Orman ~
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 ~
Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major. ~By Oliver Stone ~
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 lived a really wonderful life with this man and even after our divorce, it was incredible. ~By Priscilla Presley ~
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 ~
In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce. ~By Dan Dailey ~
I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce. ~By Catherine Deneuve ~
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 ~
I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce. ~By John Milius ~
Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard. ~By Kate Millett ~
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 do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters. ~By Susan B. Anthony ~
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 ~
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 ~
Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead. ~By Bjork ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice. ~By Lee Trevino ~
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word. ~By Willard Van Orman Quine ~
Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles. ~By Zsa Zsa Gabor ~
I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work. ~By Princess Diana ~
I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs. ~By Roger Waters ~
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 ~
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. ~By John Keats ~
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier. ~By Mary Wesley ~
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 ~
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. ~By Eliza Dushku ~
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 ~
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother. ~By Clare Boothe Luce ~
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. ~By Voltaire ~
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've been married three times and divorced three times. ~By Rick Wakeman ~
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 ~
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. ~By James MacGregor Burns ~
I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me. ~By Kurt Cobain ~
I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness. ~By Beth Henley ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Yes, the divorce was difficult. It was difficult. ~By Priscilla Presley ~
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 ~
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 ~
When I got divorced and moved into an apartment, I started keeping the TV on, just for company. ~By Mark Harmon ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one. ~By Hedy Lamarr ~
Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers. ~By Gerald F. Lieberman ~
I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance. ~By Sarah Ferguson ~
He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house. ~By Zsa Zsa Gabor ~
To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while. ~By James Caan ~
I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on. And that was just me. ~By Harvey Korman ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18. ~By Placido Domingo ~
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 ~
Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations. ~By Susan Faludi ~
I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house. ~By Zsa Zsa Gabor ~
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 ~
There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life. ~By Michael Douglas ~
Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone. ~By Bob Geldof ~
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