quotations about divorce
A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.
ELSIE CLEW PARSONS
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Fear and Conventionality
I harbor ill feelings toward a society, and a clergy, that allows marriage partners to split over the smallest incompatibility, where divorce comes in a multitude of flavors, like Baskin Robbins ice cream, where men and women can blame one another and everything except themselves for matrimony's mess. They look for externals over which they have no control and, fingering them, take no responsibility.
ROBERT DYKSTRA
She Never Said Goodbye
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
Advice from a Failure
Losing a mate to death is devastating but it's not a personal attack like divorce. When somebody you love stops loving you and walks away, it's an insult beyond comparison.
SUE MERRELL
Great News Town
My mother always said, "Don't marry for money, divorce for money."
WENDY LIEBMAN
attributed, "The Wittiest Quotes on Divorce", Psychology Today, November 16, 2012
Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.
EDWARD HOAGLAND
Red Wolves and Black Bears
Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.
GROUCHO MARX
attributed, Son of Groucho
Divorce is always good news. I know that sounds weird, but it's true because no good marriage has ever ended in divorce. That would be sad. If two people were married and ... they just had a great thing and then they got divorced, that would be really sad. But that has happened zero times.
LOUIS C.K.
"The Annotated Wisdom of Louis C.K.", Splitsider
My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
LEE TREVINO
attributed, Golf List Mania!
So many persons think divorce a panacea for every ill, who find out, when they try it, that the remedy is worse than the disease.
DOROTHY DIX
Her Book
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
CLARE BOOTH LUCE
The Women
The springtime of divorce is like that, as well. Everything isn't rosy and put in place yet. Nor have all the shadows and snows of the dark winter days disappeared. But there are signs that things are changing: a new time of warmth is just ahead.
RICHARD D. CROOKS
Finding God in the Seasons of Divorce
In our family we don't divorce our men -- we bury them.
RUTH GORDON
Lord Love a Duck
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
Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws
Divorce is like death without a burial.
DANE CUNNINGHAM
Risky Relationships
Marriage is grand. Divorce is about twenty grand.
JAY LENO
The Tonight Show
You know why divorces are so expensive? Because they're worth it.
HENNY YOUNGMAN
stand-up routine
We've put it down, we've patched it up
We both have had our say
Divorce ain't black, divorce ain't white
Just a sad ole shade of gray.
BILL ANDERSON
"Sad Old Shade of Gray"
Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
HELEN ROWLAND
A Guide to Men