Top 32 Quotes About Alimony
#1. King Henry VIII, who said to his lawyer, Forget the alimony, I've got a better idea. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#3. Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them continues to pay for it.
Peggy Hopkins Joyce
#4. I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.
Linda Evans
#5. My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.
John Cleese
#6. Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
H.L. Mencken
#7. I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay and alimony, and so they take a job at a less-than-reputable paper. You know, you do what you gotta do.
Eric Stoltz
#8. People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.
Gay Talese
#9. Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.
P.G. Wodehouse
#10. These are your peak earning years, my friend. You've got kids to think about. And soon enough, alimony.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#11. Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
Oliver Herford
#12. Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.
Quentin Crisp
#13. Sometimes they would just pay me to stay home and not do anything else, which sounds fantastic but doesn't do much for your ego. Its probably a little like getting alimony-the money is nice but has a nasty aftertaste.
Craig Ferguson
#14. I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not by much.
Don Adams
#15. Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
Arthur Baer
#17. We have FCC, abandoned alimony payments, assault and battery, Homeland Security escalation, and that's before we invite the IRS to take a walk on your wild side.
Ken Goldstein
#18. Now you can start paying for it with money instead of blood.
Kenneth Eade
#19. Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.
Dick Schaap
#20. Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
Groucho Marx
#21. If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages
not alimony.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#22. Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam to pay alimony to Eve, not Steve.
Lewis Black
#23. It just doesn't seem fair, you know? I work my ass off and she gets to live off the ruination of my financial life
Kenneth Eade
#24. Maybe it was the hip-sprung way she moved, high-assed and shiny, alert to surfaces, like a character in a B movie soaked in alimony and gin.
Don DeLillo
#25. You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.
John Barrymore
#26. How the hell can you be liberated and accept alimony?" I said.
Again the smile, innocent, beautiful, glorious, and satanic. "Exploit the oppressor," she said.
Robert B. Parker
#27. If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price we have to pay for sweeping a woman off hers.
Groucho Marx
#28. I'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks.
Burt Reynolds
#29. Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.
Groucho Marx
#30. Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.
Robin Williams
#31. The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.
Fannie Hurst
#32. In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands.
Diane Garnick
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