Going Through Divorce Quotes

• 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.

  Buddy Guy

  Baseball, Divorce, Guitar

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• Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Single, Sexy

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

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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.

  Mickey Rooney

  Divorce, Thinking, People

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• Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Funny, Children, Teaching

  Jennifer Weiner (2010). “Fly Away Home”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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• She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.

  Tommy Manville

  Marriage, Divorce, Judging

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Sarcastic, Wedding

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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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• Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Divorce, Literature

  A Guide to Men "Divorces" (1922)

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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.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Marriage, Sympathy, Divorce

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.122, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.

  Mary Blakely

  Divorce, Insightful, Bypass

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Robert Anderson

  Love, Inspirational, Anniversary

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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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• Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables.

  Evan Esar

  Divorce, Two, Firsts

  Evan Esar (1961). “Humorous English: a guide to comic usage, jocular speech and writing, and witty grammar”

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• I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

  Agatha Christie

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I can't get divorced because I'm a Catholic. Catholics don't get divorced. They stay together through anger and hatred and festering misery, just like God intended.

  Lenny Clarke

  Funny, Divorce, Hatred

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• 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.

  Jean Kerr

  Inspirational, Life, Marriage

  Jean Kerr (1965). “Mary, Mary”, p.19, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Many a woman would get a divorce if she could do it without making her husband happy.

  Evan Esar

  Husband, Divorce, Ifs

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• Divorce is one of the most stressful life events anyone goes through.

  Emily Doskow

  Divorce, Events, Stressful

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• To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.

  James Caan

  Funny, Divorce, Playboy

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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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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• Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today.

  Bob Hastings

  Positive, Regret, Divorce

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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.

  Richard Wagner

  Divorce, Mad, Heartfelt

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• I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Love, Positive, Break Up

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1445, Simon and Schuster

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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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