Marriage Divorce Quotes

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

Jack Benny

Love, Funny, Relationship

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A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Ruth Graham

Love, Friendship, Relationship

Ruth Bell Graham, Gigi Tchividjian (2009). “A Quiet Knowing”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc

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More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Doug Larson

Love, Relationship, Anniversary

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

Divorce, Firsts, Life Is

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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

Pat Conroy

Marriage, Divorce, Civilization

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There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Martin Luther

Love, Friendship, Relationship

"Table Talk" by Martin Luther, (p. 292), 1569.

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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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Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

Groucho Marx

Funny, Sarcastic, Wedding

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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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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

Leo Tolstoy

Relationship, Marriage, Wedding

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

Tommy Manville

Marriage, Divorce, Judging

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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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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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My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.

Lee Trevino

Home, Divorce, Golf

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

Ambrose Bierce

Divorce, Diplomatic Relations, Boundaries

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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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Divorce is the price people play for playing with matches.

Evan Esar

Divorce, Play, People

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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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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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