Marriage And Divorce Quotes

The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is not in separation. It is in simple integrity that leads a man and a woman to square up their shoulders and meet their obligations. It is found in the Golden Rule, a time-honored principle that should first and foremost find expression in marriage.

The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.

In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.

Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.

Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.

Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract.

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

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.

Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.

She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.

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.

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.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. Honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

Divorce is the price people play for playing with matches.

Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones.

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.

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.

Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract. Someone is thinking of self comforts, conveniences, freedoms, luxuries, or ease. Sometimes the ceaseless pin pricking of an unhappy, discontented, and selfish spouse can finally add up to serious physical violence. Sometimes people are goaded to the point where they erringly feel justified in doing the things that are so wrong. Nothing of course justifies sin.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.