Quotes About Divorces

#1. Maybe 50 or 60 percent of all divorces are predicated on someone's being physically unfit. Who wants to live with negativism? Love goes out the window.

Jack LaLanne

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

Madonna Ciccone

#3. Mixed doubles are always starting divorces. If you play with your wife, you fight with her; if you play with somebody else, she fights with you.

Sidney Wood

#4. 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.

John Green

#5. The only thing that's different between high profile or celebrity divorces is that you have to do all you can to keep your client and the details out of the media.

Laura Wasser

#6. Our culture puts feelings first, but true love isn't based on feelings. That is why there are so many divorces today. When the early romantic feelings in a marriage do not remain constant ... many people believe divorce is the answer.

Billy Graham

#7. Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes and defeats, their fevers, their undiagnosable ailments, their sudden deaths. They also have their moral and social distinctions.

Virgilia Peterson

#8. 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

#9. I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

Nas

#10. That's Mama, divorces a lunatic and marries a gigolo.

Dashiell Hammett

#11. Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses,
Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.

W.S. Gilbert

#12. Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time, in our considered view, that you were present at certain other crucial moments in your history.

John Le Carre

#13. This hook nose and crab meister attitude has gotten me every job I've ever had. And more divorces than I care to remember.

Norman Fell

#14. I've seen people go through divorces and stuff, crossroads that don't end well. Often.

Jennifer Aniston

#15. I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.

Bess Myerson

#16. My dad is from Japanese descent, my mom is from Swedish descent and, through marriages and divorces, a pretty multicultural family - a lot of Spanish speakers in the family.

Cary Fukunaga

#17. 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.

Djimon Hounsou

#18. I'm not someone who has had to deal with much personal drama outside of the usual: growing up with parents who hated each other, two marriages and divorces of my own. There was the cancer thing, too.

Penny Marshall

#19. It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.

Gore Vidal

#20. History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.

Louis Fischer

#21. I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and father have been married four times each - eight ceremonies with the best of intentions.

Joshua Ferris

#22. Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.

Gunnar Myrdal

#23. Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues, and to help prevent divorces thanks to the sheer bother of arguing over who owns what.

J.P. Donleavy

#24. There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between the educated and the non-educated. And there are huge and growing chasms daily. And I want to say that it's not simply about generation. It's about genre.

Michael Eric Dyson

#25. People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

Don Johnson

#26. If a man is going to leave one wife to marry another, it's better if he divorces the first before he marries the second.

Joseph Heller

#27. Neither of them had learned, after two divorces, that people can't be applied to wounds like gauze.

Christie Yant

#28. I think it's unworkable. What are we going to have, people like in contentious divorces suddenly claiming that one or the other of them should go to jail because once he or she spanked the child.

Sean Hannity

#29. Gay unions, what is that about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn't work for straight people any more ... I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.

Boy George

#30. In other words, more than seventy per cent of American divorces are granted because husbands and wives can not adapt themselves to each other in the matter of how they shall spend their LEISURE hours.

Elsie Lincoln Benedict

#31. Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We're going on a downward spiral.

Heather Mills

#32. 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.

Mike Nichols

#33. Had the love been permanent, there won't have been divorces after love marriages. Had the love been everlasting, there won't have been bad blood in the family.

Girdhar Joshi

#34. It's better to have three broken engagements than three divorces.

Sheryl Crow

#35. 90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?

Bob Geldof

#36. 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.

David Whyte

#37. Zeno's quote-unquote discovered a loophole in the Trust that smashes through the edict regarding love matches and divorces."

Leta Blake

#38. And many attorneys and judges have come to support legal recognition for same-sex unions because they are already having to deal with the division of assets and similar issues in de facto gay and lesbian divorces.

Stephanie Coontz

#39. I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on. And that was just me.

Harvey Korman

#40. Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.

George McGovern

#41. My views are very fluctuating. I have very contradictory takes on the subject. Dating is easier, while marriage is hard work. You see your friends having early divorces, and on the other hand, you see your parents having a successful marriage.

Kangana Ranaut

#42. France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'

Helen Rowland

#43. More divorces start in the bedroom than in any other room in the house.

Ann Landers

#44. Hirsch is for weddings and Lagavulin is for divorces. Hirsch is as upbeat and happy as Lagavulin is dark and brooding.

Fritz Allhoff

#45. You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.

Willie Nelson

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

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#47. My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that home explode, too.

Jeffrey Kluger

#48. The Bible never divorces the truth of Christ's future return with our present-day responsibilities.

Robert Jeffress

#49. But he had handled enough divorces to understand that in rough circumstances companions sometimes fared better than lovers. Rocco

Laurie Fabiano

#50. Everybody goes through divorces. There's millions of people that have drinking problems. There's people that their weight goes up and down, just like mine. It's just life. And I think people relate to that. I really do.

John Daly

#51. It takes a long time to really be married. One marries many times at many levels within that marriage. If you have more marriages than you have divorces within the marriage, you're lucky and you stick it out.

Ruby Dee

#52. 18 Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and everyone who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

Anonymous

#53. For my daughter I would suffer through a thousand divorces, a million uncomfortable phone calls, a trillion emotionally fraught text messages.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#54. Many of the Cape employees work 16 to 18 hour shifts a day. The Cape area earns the title of number one in divorces for the whole country.

Martha Lemasters

#55. My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#56. When divorces meant marriage no longer provided security for a lifetime, women adjusted by focusing on careers as empowerment. But when the sacrifice of a career met the sacrifices in a career, the fantasy of a career became the reality of trade-offs. Women developed career ambivalence.

Warren Farrell

#57. A wise man sees failure as progress.
A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic,
And loses his soul in the process.

Canibus

#58. Like all great divorces, whether they be marital or epistemological, it had its antecedents in history.

Fulton J. Sheen

#59. We deal with people that are going through divorces and that are facing life-threatening illnesses, and I'm giving them hope. And to me, I don't think there's anything "lite" about that.

Joel Osteen

#60. Of course I believe in love despite four divorces. There is nobody who doesn't believe in love. But marriage - that fits some people but obviously not me.

Sean Bean

#61. That anyone would want to be famous still mystified Colin. As TV had trained him to do, he associated the word with divorces and court appearances and rehab and jail time. He knew more than he wanted about all of those except rehab, and that was the one famous people blew off anyway.

Harry Turtledove

#62. What used to be edgy (divorces) has become mainstream and what used to be mainstream (racism and sexism) has become shocking.

Sara Sheridan

#63. So we fell asleep holding hands. If married couples got to do this all the time, shit if I could understand how there were ever divorces, or even fights.

John Barnes

#64. Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They're worth it.

Henny Youngman

#65. Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.

Gary Paulsen

#66. Divorces are made in heaven.

Oscar Wilde

#67. Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.

Warren Farrell

#68. Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables.

Evan Esar

#69. Marriage is the most serious long-term contract a couple will make in their lifetime, but many enter into it with a lack of maturity and knowledge. The growing number of divorces shows how imperative it is that young people be adequately prepared for marriage.

Billy Graham

#70. When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties.

Dana Stabenow

#71. Marriage is a blast. Like a bomb.

Julieanne O'Connor

#72. This place,' Annabel waved her left arm in a circle. 'It is a place filled with misery, hatred, jealousy ... and then there are the lawyers.

Tanya Thistleton