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Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
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Robin Williams
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A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
Author:
Edith Wharton
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People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
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Mary Wesley
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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.
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Roger Waters
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Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.
Author:
Richard Wagner
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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
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Voltaire
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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
Author:
Voltaire
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In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
Author:
G. Trudeau
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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.
Author:
Claire Trevor
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My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
Author:
Lee Trevino
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Tertullian
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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.
Author:
Lee Tergesen
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I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
Author:
Gloria Swanson
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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.
Author:
Oliver Stone
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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.
Author:
Allan Sherman
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I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
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Dinah Sheridan
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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.
Author:
Mark Ruffalo
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Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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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.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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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.
Author:
Diana Ross
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A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short.
Author:
Mickey Rooney
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I'd like to give divorce a good name.
Author:
Geraldo Rivera
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Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.
Author:
Sumner Redstone
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Yes, the divorce was difficult. It was difficult.
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Priscilla Presley
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She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him.
Author:
Priscilla Presley
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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.
Author:
Natalie Portman
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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.
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P. O'Rourke
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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P. O'Rourke
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Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.
Author:
Timothy Murphy
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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
Author:
Jim Morrison
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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.
Author:
Jay Mohr
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A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book.
Author:
Marvin Mitchelson
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Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.
Author:
Kate Millett
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I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.
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John Milius
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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.
Author:
Mignon McLaughlin
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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.
Author:
Norman Mailer
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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
Author:
Clare Luce
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My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.
Author:
Wendy Liebman
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Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.
Author:
Gerald Lieberman
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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.
Author:
Jay Leno
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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.
Author:
William Leahy
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Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.
Author:
Hedy Lamarr
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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.
Author:
Hedy Lamarr
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Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
Author:
Hedy Lamarr
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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.
Author:
Kato Kaelin
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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.
Author:
Arlie Hochschild
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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.
Author:
Anna Held
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I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.
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Anne Heche
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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.
Author:
Buddy Guy
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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.
Author:
Seth Green
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Divorce is a game played by lawyers.
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Cary Grant
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You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
Author:
Ellen Goodman
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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.
Author:
Vince Gill
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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.
Author:
Vince Gill
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Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.
Author:
Boy George
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Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.
Author:
Bob Geldof
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I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
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Mary Garden
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Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.
Author:
Zsa Gabor
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He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.
Author:
Zsa Gabor
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The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.
Author:
Annette Funicello
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I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance.
Author:
Sarah Ferguson
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Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.
Author:
Douglas Feith
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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.
Author:
Denis Diderot
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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.
Author:
James Denton
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I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.
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Catherine Deneuve
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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.
Author:
Richard Davis
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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.
Author:
Paula Danziger
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In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.
Author:
Dan Dailey
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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.
Author:
Kieran Culkin
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I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
Author:
Kurt Cobain
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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.
Author:
Michael Chabon
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Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel.
Author:
Brian Celio
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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.
Author:
Jimmy Carter
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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.
Author:
Jimmy Carter
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To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.
Author:
James Caan
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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.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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Rita Brown
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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.
Author:
Eric Braeden
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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.
Author:
Emma Bonino
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Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.
Author:
Mary Blakely
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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.
Author:
Bjork
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When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.
Author:
Monica Bellucci
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Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances.
Author:
Maria Bartiromo
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How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.
Author:
Lucille Ball
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In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
Author:
Lauren Bacall
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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
Author:
Margaret Atwood
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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.
Author:
Susan Anthony
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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.
Author:
Robert Anderson
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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
Author:
Edward Albee
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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.
Author:
Christina Aguilera
