Divorce Quotes - Page 28

• Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "character issues."

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Character, Dope, Issues

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.32, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You should be prepared for anything during divorce proceedings - even the truth.

  Dave Barry

  Should, Be Prepared, Proceeding

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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• A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage - only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Sweet, Character, Trying

  Hendrik Hertzberg (2005). “Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004”, p.49, Penguin

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• A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

  Woody Allen

  Breakup, Drinking, Wife

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• The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wall, Sunset, Hair

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• I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.

  Mike Todd

  Inspirational, Attitude, Mind

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We just say: the divorce didn't work out.

  Joe

  Marriage, Work Out

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• The divorce is from my old putter. I think it's final - at least we're due for a long separation. I've suffered with that old putter for two years now. It got so rude I couldn't stand it.

  Shelley Hamlin

  Golf, Thinking, Years

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• 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!

  Don Johnson

  People, Alcohol, Insanity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• "Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by the aunt-in-law who had moments before placed a golf club in my virgin grip. I was twenty-five, and had spent my youth in a cloisterd precinct of teh middle class where golf was a rumoured something, like champagne breakfasts and divorce, that the rich did.

  John Updike

  Golf, Aunt, Swings

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• As soon as I get through with you, you'll have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

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• Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Class, Generosity

  "Louder and Funnier". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1932.

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• Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

  Rebecca West

  Marriage, Wedding, Cheerful

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• Lovers' quarrels are not generally about money. Divorce cases generally are.

  Mason Cooley

  Money, Lovers, Quarrels

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• There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

  Wallis Simpson

  Marriage, Broken, Tangled

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• You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took.

  Brandi Carlile

  Life Lesson, First Love, Loss

  "Bear Creek : A Conversation With Brandi Carlile, Plus Rocket Juice & The Moon by Galen Hawthorne". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 04, 2012.

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• For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.

  Karl Marlantes

  War, Dark, Clouds

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like to Go to War”, p.193, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism, free love, free divorce, the vicious indulgences consequent on unregulated civilization, the worldliness which tempts men and women to avoid large families, often by sinful methods, thus making the ignorant masses the chief supply of the future ruling majorities; and most powerful of all, the feeble constitution and poor health of women, causing them to dread maternity as--what it is fast becoming--an accumulation of mental and bodily tortures.

  Catharine Beecher

  Family, Powerful, Motherhood

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1871). “Woman Suffrage and Woman's Profession”, p.9

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• Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Heart, Never Stop Loving

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• If it is right to be legally married, it is right to be legally divorced ... To be deprived of a Divorce is like being shut up in prison because someone attempted to kill you. It is just as honorable to get out of matrimonial trouble legally, as to be freed from any other wrong.

  Mary Edwards Walker

  Married, Shut Up, Prison

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• I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.

  Noah Baumbach

  Teenager, Agreement, Profound

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• In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.

  Erica Jong

  Passion, Motherhood, Achievement

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.15, Penguin

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• This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce and marital unhappiness. Could society be deaf and dumb and Congress abolished for a season, what a happy and peaceful life one could lead!

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Happy, Lunch, Dumb

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• Adolescence is a time when children are supposed to move away from parents who are holding firm and protective behind them. When the parents disconnect, the children have no base to move away from or return to. They aren't ready to face the world alone. With divorce, adolescents feel abandoned, and they are outraged at that abandonment. They are angry at both parents for letting them down. Often they feel that their parents broke the rules and so now they can too.

  Mary Pipher

  Children, Moving, Parent

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• If you raise the bar and offer your best to others then you deserve the same or better. Sometimes you have to divorce people who add no value to your life because they have nothing to offer but drama.

  Bindu

  Drama, People, Add

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