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  • Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

    Helen Rowland (2017). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.42, Litres
  • Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

    Marriage   Devil   Ransom  
    A Little Book in C Major ch. 6 (1916)
  • 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.

    Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.155, Harmony
  • More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

  • 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.

    Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.24, BookBaby
  • 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.

    Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.15, Penguin
  • 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.

    Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade
  • I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

    Book   Divorce   Given  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones.

    Joan Rivers (1997). “Bouncing back: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!”, Thorndike Pr
  • 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.

    Gary Chapman (2010). “Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married”, p.10, Moody Publishers
  • The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

    Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.254
  • Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.

    Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.125, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Selfish   Party   Divorce  
  • 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.

    P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.122, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

    Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade
  • 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.

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

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

    Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.737, e-artnow
  • 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.

  • Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

    Divorce   Causes   Chiefs  
    "M*A*S*H. Season 3. Bulletin Board". TV Series,
  • A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

    Quoted in Time, 19 Mar. 1973
  • Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

  • 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.

    Jennifer Weiner (2010). “Fly Away Home”, p.362, Simon and Schuster
  • Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

  • A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

    Ruth Bell Graham, Gigi Tchividjian (2009). “A Quiet Knowing”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

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

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

    Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (1998). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.33, Oxford University Press, USA
  • France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'

    Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.26, Litres
  • 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.

    Real   Divorce   Gay  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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