Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

[The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute . . .

Diablo Cody

I'm one of the people that were divorced by 30, which is apparently a growing group... Obviously it's something that affects you forever. It's going to be interesting to see in ten, twenty years what kind of lasting effect young divorce has on the people that are doing it because it's becoming more and more common.

Benjamin Walker

People are still people, and they make their decisions based on their life experiences and their beliefs. You really can't divorce the two. It's important to fight against stereotypes and oversimplifications in very complex people.

Cher

The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage.

Beth Henley

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

Natasha Trethewey

My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.

Catherine Deneuve

I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.

Cary Grant

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I find divorces repulsive. I will never get divorced, never.

Ben Affleck

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.

Arthur Golden

When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.

Bjork

Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.

Betty Friedan

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.

Bob Geldof

Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.

Felicity Huffman

As my husband tells me, he's going to kill me and divorce me and then eat me if I work over the hiatus. He's ready for us to have some time together, and he's ready not to be Mr. Mom, anymore.

Mona Simpson

It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems is that once divorce is possible, once break-ups are possible, it can all become a little less momentous.

If everyone got a divorce and looked for a second wife, the Coptic family would lose its moral compass.

Djimon Hounsou

Some of the reason why you have so many divorces is that we tend to get married, most of the time, not for ourselves, but for others, or for how it looks to others.

David Ginola

If I told my wife I was going to become a manager she'd say 'sign this then. Don't worry it's only a divorce. Au revoir'.

David Gray

Love after divorce is all about showing and sharing with my son what is good and right in life!

Dave Barry

You should be prepared for anything during divorce proceedings - even the truth.

A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.

After my divorce I was really down in the dumps. I wanted to reinvent myself.

Alcohol, drugs, divorce -- that's what assaults our families,

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

Aziz Ansari

Yeah, I've been a little down. Totally natural. I'm getting a divorce, but now I'm ready to pull myself up by some G-strings.

Bertrand Russell

Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.

Jane Kaczmarek

Divorce is brutal and horrible and... you have to actively work to get your life back on track.

Jane Fonda

I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.

Ben Folds

I divorce myself from listeners who aren't tolerant of humor. I did notice universally that, especially when it comes to weight, people look in the mirror and get the angle just right, tell themselves it's all right, and then they go out.

Channing Tatum

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.

Alana Stewart

I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.

Jane Seymour

After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.