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Quotes about divorce
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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. (Culkin Kieran)
Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash. (Culkin Kieran)
Two lives that once part are as ships that divide. (Culkin Kieran)
People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they seem bound together for eternity by their rudimentary nomenclature. They may loathe and despise one another, quarrel, weep, and commit mayhem, but they are not free to divorce. Tom, Dick, and Harry can go to Reno on a whim, but nothing short of death can separate John and Mary. (Culkin Kieran)
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The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation. (Culkin Kieran)
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. (Culkin Kieran)
You never really know a man until you have divorced him. (Culkin Kieran)
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house. (Culkin Kieran)
Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5, 000 Gideon Bibles. (Culkin Kieran)
Divorce is a game played by lawyers. (Culkin Kieran)
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. (Culkin Kieran)
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. (Culkin Kieran)
Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract. Someone is thinking of self comforts, conveniences, freedoms, luxuries, or ease. Sometimes the ceaseless pin pricking of an unhappy, discontented, and selfish spouse can finally add up to serious physical violence. Sometimes people are goaded to the point where they erringly feel justified in doing the things that are so wrong. Nothing of course justifies sin. (Culkin Kieran)
Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers. (Culkin Kieran)
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. (Culkin Kieran)
Divorce is the sacrament of adultery. (Culkin Kieran)
France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are made in America. (Culkin Kieran)
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. (Culkin Kieran)
It takes two to destroy a marriage. (Culkin Kieran)
If you think you have trouble supporting a wife, try not supporting her. (Culkin Kieran)
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient. (Culkin Kieran)
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. (Culkin Kieran)
It is he who has broken the bond of marriage -- not I. I only break its bondage. (Culkin Kieran)
We're in the middle of a divorce! D-I-V-O-R-C-E! DEE-VORCE!!! (Culkin Kieran)
The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure. (Culkin Kieran)
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