Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madonna Ciccone

I might be responsible for as many gay marriages as I am for heterosexual divorces.

Merle Shain

Perhaps the old view of 'Me breadwinner, you hausfrau' worked for our grandparents, when people obligingly popped off before boring each other to death, but it won't work any longer because we are living too long and divorce is needed today to do what death acomplished more economically before.

Merle Shain

No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.

Merle Haggard

I don't think there's ever been a friendly divorce.

Mason Cooley

People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.

Michael Crawford

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

Michael Chabon

What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.

Michel Faber

But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes advantage of His inattention to grant an illicit mercy. God...is an Anglican, whereas Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have an uneasy relationship, unable to agree on anything, except that if They divorce, the Devil will leap gleefully into the breach.

Martha Stewart

I always disagreed with the separation of the name and the brand and the person To build on that name and brand is one thing. To divorce the name and the brand from the person was not an approach that I agreed with.

Mark Ruffalo

I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.

Miguel de Cervantes

The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.

Margaret Mead

I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.

Margaret Mead

People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.

Melissa Etheridge

I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce.

Michael Douglas

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

John Gresham Machen

Faith is indeed intellectual; it involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge. But although faith is intellectual, it is not only intellectual. You cannot have faith without having knowledge; but you will not have faith if you have only knowledge.

John Green

She said Robert Joyner had killed himself with a gun. And then I asked why, and then she told me that he was getting a divorce and was sad about it.' 'Lots of people get divorces and don't kill themselves,' I said. 'I know,' she said, excitement in her voice. 'That's what I told her.

Pat Robertson

Any woman who votes for no-fault divorce is like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving.

Jennifer Aniston

I'm thrilled. It's so wonderful. And who knew that this (divorce) would be the thing to initiate this?' It's like we get to reintroduce ourselves to each other. I'm just happy she's still here.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.

Mike Nichols

If you're fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and you're a Jew, you don't think so much about relationships. People didn't have a lot of divorces during the Holocaust, for instance.

If you look at divorce as a process in that you study the differences before, during and after divorce, it turns out the most harmful effects happen before the divorce even occurs.

If more can be encouraged to participate in marriage preparation, divorces will be reduced.

It was not a pretty divorce, ... But none are.

Mike Gatting

I've had it quite a long time and my wife had threatened to divorce me if I shaved it off!

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.

Dave Grohl

I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's always an OD. There's always a bad business manager.

David Whyte

You'll always love the person, if you're sensible. But you get a lot of people, especially in divorces and separations, doing a lot of damage to themselves, because they can't figure out that they actually still love this person, but not in their original way.

Cokie Roberts

The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce.

If you think it's a sham divorce, investigate it.

If you really want to increase your wealth, get married and stay married. On the other hand, divorce can devastate your wealth.

George Bernard Shaw

It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

Freeman Dyson

I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.