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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.
Oct 1, 2025
Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.
You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.
In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
Winning isn't the end of the world
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables.
American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.
A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book.
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.
To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.
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.
Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.
I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.
Marriage is grand. Divorce is about twenty grand.
Many a woman would get a divorce if she could do it without making her husband happy.
Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. Honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.
A new study found that women gain more weight after marriage, but men gain more weight after a divorce. Yeah, the divorce usually takes place after men point out that women gained more weight after marriage.
Divorce is the price people play for playing with matches.
A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short.
Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.
I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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.
Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today.
Any woman who votes for no-fault divorce is like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving.
The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.
When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.
Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones.
For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have.
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.
Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
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.
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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.
Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.
Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.
There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.