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• I doubt if there is one married person on earth who can be objective about divorce. It is always a threat, admittedly or not, and such a dire threat that it is almost a dirty word.

  Nora Johnson

  Dirty, Doubt, Earth

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• Divorce is probably as painful as death.

  William Shatner

  Painful

  "William Shatner Bares His Soul". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. October 31, 2011.

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• 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Funny, Life

  In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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• One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

  Judith Viorst

  Love, Marriage, Funny Valentines Day

  Judith Viorst (1987). “Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.”, Fireside

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• We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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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, Self Worth

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

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• Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…”, p.8291, e-artnow

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• Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent.

  Sándor Márai

  Heartfelt, Guilty, Innocent

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• Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.

  Shannon Hale

  Heartfelt, Gone, Affection

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Midnight in Austenland”, p.209, A&C Black

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• Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

  David Mitchell

  Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.320, Random House

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• Any woman who votes for no-fault divorce is like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving.

  Pat Robertson

  Turkeys, Voting, Faults

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• If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.

  Betty Friedan

  Sex, Justice, Roles

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• I hate grunge. It was the worst period of my life.

  Polly Allen Mellen

  Hate, Grunge, Periods

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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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• 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

  People, Reason, Easier

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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

  Expression, Personality, Desire

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

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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.

  Kato Kaelin

  Fighting, Dating, Together

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• A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Shoes, Wife

  Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume I: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.519, Modern Library

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• Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. Honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

  Larry Gelbart

  Funny, Witty, Important

  "Fictional character: Maj. Frank Burns". TV Series "M*A*S*H", 1972-1983.

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• Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Two, Ships, Divides

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 504-05, A Lament, line 10, 1922.

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• Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Sarcastic, Wedding

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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, Wife, World

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• Its easier to get a divorce than pass the driving test. Now its just a basic form-filling exercise.

  Paul Coleridge

  Exercise, Tests, Driving

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• Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

  Pat Conroy

  Marriage, Civilization, Encouraging Marriage

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• The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: he looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.

  Jo Coudert

  Eye, Men, Black

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.212, iUniverse

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