After Divorce Quotes

• 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.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Mean, Divorce, Men

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• In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

  Lauren Bacall

  Women, Party, Memorable

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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.

  Denis Diderot

  Divorce, Population, Literature

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.

  Elinor Glyn

  Husband, Divorce, Wife

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• Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

  Morton Hunt

  Positive, Moving On, Break Up

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• Winning isn't the end of the world

  David Pleat

  Letting Go, Being Single, Breast Cancer

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• It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Patriotic, Divorce

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.373, Wildside Press LLC

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

  Evan Esar

  Divorce, Play, People

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• You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.

  Mike Tyson

  Sleep, Divorce, Cutting

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• A new study found that women gain more weight after marriage, but men gain more weight after a divorce. Yeah, the divorce usually takes place after men point out that women gained more weight after marriage.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Divorce, Men, Weight

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• People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship.

  Gary Chapman

  Divorce, Intimate Relationships, Skills

  Gary Chapman (2010). “Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married”, p.10, Moody Publishers

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• The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book.

  Marvin Mitchelson

  Book, Divorce, Law

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• For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Single, Divorce

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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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• Sometimes divorce is better than marriage

  Sumner Redstone

  Divorce, Sometimes

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• A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.

  Elsie Clews Parsons

  Divorce, Expression, Personality

  Elsie Clews Parsons (1997). “Fear and Conventionality”, p.138, University of Chicago Press

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• The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Divorce, People, Reason

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• In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

  Garry Trudeau

  Spring, Divorce, Thinking

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• Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

  Tertullian

  Religious, Divorce, Vow

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• I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

  Rebecca West

  Divorce, Unhappy, Happy Marriage

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• Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.

  William Faulkner

  Couple, Divorce, Men

  William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”

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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.

  Monica Bellucci

  Divorce, People, Tragedy

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• Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Divorce, Diplomatic Relations, Boundaries

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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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