Marriage And Divorce Quotes

• 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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• Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Party, Divorce, Selfishness

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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  A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

  Margaret Atwood

  Broken Heart, Lost Love, Divorce

  Quoted in Time, 19 Mar. 1973

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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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• Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.

  Warren Farrell

  Divorce, Boxing, Legal System

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• The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is not in separation. It is in simple integrity that leads a man and a woman to square up their shoulders and meet their obligations. It is found in the Golden Rule, a time-honored principle that should first and foremost find expression in marriage.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Stress, Integrity, Divorce

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.155, Harmony

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• My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.

  Joyce Brothers

  Marriage, Husband, Divorce

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• Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Sarcastic, Wedding

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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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• There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

  Erica Jong

  Marriage, Broken Heart, Divorce

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

  Oscar Wilde

  Divorce, Broken, Bondage

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (1998). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.33, Oxford University Press, USA

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• For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a "solution" to stress, only as a way to end one form of pain and accept another.

  Fred Rogers

  Couple, Pain, Children

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• There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

  Erica Jong

  Marriage, Rhythm, Courtship

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

  Gloria Swanson

  Book, Divorce, Given

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

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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, Divorce

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

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• Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

  Simone Signoret

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

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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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• Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.

  Roseanne Barr

  Divorce, Insightful, Way

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• Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Relationship, Money

  Helen Rowland (2017). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.42, Litres

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

  Evan Esar

  Divorce, Play, People

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• Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Devil, Ransom

  A Little Book in C Major ch. 6 (1916)

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• The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Divorce, Firsts, Life Is

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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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• Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Divorce, Heartfelt, Tragedy

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

  Tommy Manville

  Marriage, Divorce, Judging

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