Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each
other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. — Oliver Herford
Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers. — Richard Pryor
Many people from many different walks of life have marriages that break up, and those are deeply personal, deeply painful but ultimately private matters. — Nicola Sturgeon
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. — Edwin Louis Cole
The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse
people would marry for good. — Ruby Dee
Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others. — Simone de Beauvoir
Short Marriage And Divorce Quotes
Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass. — Mary Blakely
Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. — Lao Tzu
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. — Edith Wharton
Each divorce is the death of a small civilization. — Pat Conroy
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. — Abraham Lincoln
Marriage is not a joke. It is not like food that you can spit out when it is too hot to chew. —
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. — Joseph Barth
Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation.
Love Marriage And Divorce Quotes
The voice within is what I'm married to. All marriage is a metaphor for that marriage. My lover is the place inside me where an honest yes and no come from. That's my true partner. It's always there.
And to tell you yes when my integrity says no is to divorce that partner. — Byron Katie
Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single. — Jayne Mansfield
Finding a cat--or having a cat find you--can change your world as much as marriage, divorce, love, death, or even winning the lottery can, and sometimes more. — Kinky Friedman
We simply can't abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.
I loved everything about marriage. I loved having a companion to wake up with and have barbecues with. But things happen and people grow apart. — Jessica Simpson
Divorce Day Quotes
When people find out how strong and powerful love is, then this world will be a better place. I want to see this happen one day. — Amanda Nunes
The day you marry your dreams is the day you divorce your nightmares. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves. — C. S. Lewis
It might hurt now but one day you’ll look back and realize that it changed your life for the better. — Russell Brunson
In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition. — Shelley Winters
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever. — Ellen Goodman
Divorce is fairly common these days, and I think many times people disregard the emotional impact that divorce has on a couple and a family, because it happens so frequently. — Steve Carell
The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life. — Gloria Swanson
There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments. — C. S. Lewis
The day you wind up single through divorce or separation is the day you get to test who you really are. — Ernie J Zelinski
Divorce Quotes
On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . . — Mother Teresa
Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it. — Merle Haggard
In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder. — Fulton J. Sheen
Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible. — Gabrielle Roth
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood
A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table. — Jean Kerr
We need to divorce ourselves from venture capital as an occupation and focus on using capital as a way to take really big bets on things that just seem totally audacious. — Chamath Palihapitiya
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened. — C. S. Lewis
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
Marriage And Family Quotes
I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. — Lewis Grizzard
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. — Mother Teresa
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. — Jim Rohn
The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal. — Salvador Minuchin
A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection. — Dallin H. Oaks
When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations. — John Stott
Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages. — Frank Pittman
I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort. — J. M. W. Turner
Getting A Divorce Quotes
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
If it is right to be legally married, it is right to be legally divorced ... To be deprived of a Divorce is like being shut up in prison because someone attempted to kill you. It is just as honorable to get out of matrimonial trouble legally, as to be freed from any other wrong. — Mary Edwards Walker
Let me tell you clearly if you get a wife through the Facebook, you would lose her through the Youtube. — Enoch Adeboye
If you are going out on a date with an expectation of having sex, go get a hooker. — Corey Wayne
My career is not finished, I cannot say that now. There is work to be done. I hope to progress and get better, win a maximum number of titles. Right now, I am not where I want to be. — Paul Pogba
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
What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else. — Stephanie Klein
Work hard do not sit back and expect a miracle – there are no “Get Rich Quick Methods” with God. — Folorunsho Alakija
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
I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
Marriage Separation Quotes
Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus. It is the motif that determined that black and white people could not possibly drink from the same water fountain, eat at the same table or use the same toilets. — David Lammy
Marriage helps young couples to raise themselves towards God. The bond of marriage unites two souls so firmly that though they are physically two separate entities, their souls are merged into one harmonious whole. — Dada Vaswani
We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together. — Rodney Dangerfield
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. — Alan King
The difference between divorce and legal separation is that legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money. — Johnny Carson
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. — Sydney Smith
I think husbands and wives should live in separate houses. If there's enough money, the children should live in a third. — Cloris Leachman
Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that. — Nick Cave
Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives. — George Burns
And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end. — Junot Diaz
Getting Divorced Quotes
You have to go into relationship not with what you can get out of it, but with what you can put into it. — Corey Wayne
Don’t get married to the idea of something having to be one way. — Hannah Bronfman
Christians don't steal or lie, they don't get divorced or have abortions. If the Ten Commandments were followed by everyone we would be able to fire half the police force and in six months the prisons would be all half empty. — John Hagee
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. — Joseph Campbell
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one. — Samuel Butler
To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while. — James Caan
Faith will get in the ditch with you, faith will go in the prison with you, faith will go into divorce court with you, faith will go in the hospital with you, faith will go in the nursing home with you. — T. D. Jakes
Marriage is the hardest thing you will ever do. The secret is removing divorce as
an option. Anybody who gives themselves that option will get a divorce. — Will Smith
In the last few years, losing my father, going through a divorce and not getting some jobs I really wanted, is making me a much more interesting person, I think. This all really does feel like a rebirth, a new chapter. — John Stamos
Let sleeping dogs lie or lying dogs sleep or whatever. Time to move on. People get divorced. Life doesn't owe you your own personal happy ending especially at another's, or in this case several others', expense. — Axl Rose
I think that the divorce rate's over 50% for a reason. I don't think people are taking enough time now to really see if they can make it work and live together. — Channing Tatum
Without financial literacy, divorce rates soar, families rupture, and women stay with abusive men for financial security. A lack of jobs contributes to riots and illegal activity. Name any situation and it goes back to money. We need to focus on poverty eradication. — John Hope Bryant
Modern love is the enterprise that everyone wants to be a part of, yet there's a fifty percent divorce rate in round one and a sixty-five percent divorce rate in round two. — Esther Perel
I'm not saying that people should not divorce, but at the rate at which it happens here is sick. The kids, they suffer. I don't care what anyone says. — Eric Braeden
Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers — W. Somerset Maugham
Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances. — Maria Bartiromo
This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is somehow responsible for increasing juvenile delinquency or the increase in divorce rate, is just so much bullshit. — Betty Friedan
The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war. — P. J. O'Rourke
In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average. — Sayings
Love And Marriage Quotes
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be. — Leo Tolstoy
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. — Robert Fulghum
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. — Albert Einstein
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart — Leo Buscaglia
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. — Nhat Hanh
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. — Paulo Coelho
My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky — Nizar Qabbani
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. — Oscar Wilde
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps. — Ronald Reagan
Divorce Lawyers Quotes
In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers. — Garry Trudeau
It is ironic that most guy will ‘never’ have enough time to spend with their wives, but they always have time to visit the divorce lawyer. — Corey Wayne
A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book. — Marvin Mitchelson
A 99-year-old man is filing for divorce from his 96-year-old wife, making them the world's oldest divorced couple. It's got to be weird when a divorce lawyer is fighting for your kids to get custody of you. — Jimmy Fallon
How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them. — Lucille Ball
The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce. — John Kenneth Galbraith
There is no better lawyer than Cristiano Ronaldo. — Didier Deschamps
Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one. — Hedy Lamarr
What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce. — Claire Trevor
It's a straightforward matter of equality: it's outrageously unfair that heterosexuals shoulder alone the burden of keeping divorce lawyers in Italian sports cars — Mark Simpson
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
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it. — Benjamin Carson
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
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook. — Tommy Manville
My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce. — Joyce Brothers
Don’t marry a girl who cannot cook, she needs to know how to do chores and cook because you cannot afford to be eating out all the time. — Enoch Adeboye
Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones. — Joan Rivers
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. — Vera Brittain
It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my six-year marriage to Ashton. As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life. — Demi Moore
I’m a woman. Every woman, I think, wants to get married and wants to have children. — Cardi B
There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken. — Wallis Simpson
The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow " For better or for worse--it was the last generation in which, broadly speaking, marriage was a commitment and divorce was not an option — Tom Brokaw
[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who became a Montanist, opposed], alleges the law of God in defense of lust [likely same reference], and yet despises it in respect of his art. — Tertullian
I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred. — Natalie Portman
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. — Voltaire
The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I’ve heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right. — Danica McKellar
I firmly believe in marriage. It's a real important decision that takes a lot of dedication and time. If you're thinking about divorce. You shouldn't get married. — Seth Green
Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced. — Merle Shain
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
If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account. — Al Goldstein
I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage. — Ricky Skaggs
In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us. — Erica Jong
Divorce is the price people play for playing with matches. — Evan Esar
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward. — Erica Jong
Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor. — Warren Farrell
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
The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family. — Eminem
Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract. — Spencer W. Kimball
A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit birth control or to enforce upon a secular society its conception of divorce and the indissolubility of the marriage tie. — Reinhold Niebuhr
An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce. — Evan Esar
I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple. — Paulo Coelho
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease. — Baron de Montesquieu
Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce. — Larry Gelbart
Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue. — Malcolm Turnbull
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