Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Lagerfeld

Normally, I don't recommend me for wedding dresses – they all get a divorce.

Julius Caesar

After divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law. -Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico carere oportere

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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.

Edward Albee

I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.

Jon Stewart

Divorce isn't caused because 50% of marriages end in gayness.

Rebecca West

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

Ryan McGinley

It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.

Travis Tritt

The biggest cause of divorce is marriage.

Reinhold Niebuhr

A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit birth control or to enforce upon a secular society its conception of divorce and the indissolubility of the marriage tie.

Rick Warren

I don't think gay marriage is any threat to marriage. I think divorce is a bigger problem to marriage than anything else.

Paul Tudor Jones

My off-the-cuff remarks at the University of Virginia were with regard to global macro traders, who are on-call 24/7 and of whom there are likely only a few thousand successful practitioners in the world today. Macro trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.

Philip Yancey

I am learning that mature faith, which encompasses both simple faith and fidelity, works the opposite of paranoia. It reassembles all the events of life around trust in a loving God. When good things happen, I accept them as gifts from God, worthy of thanksgiving. When bad things happen, I do not take them as necessarily sent by God -- I see evidence in the Bible to the contrary -- and I find in them no reason to divorce God. Rather, I trust that God can use even those bad things for my benefit.

Rita Rudner

An amicable divorce is like a ventilated condom; it just doesn't work.

Rita Mae Brown

Divorce: fission after fusion.

Rita Mae Brown

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

Richard Wagner

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

Thomas Sowell

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Sarah Ferguson

I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance.

Sarah Dessen

It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.

Roseanne Barr

I'm not upset about my divorce. I'm only upset that I'm not a widow.

Roseanne Barr

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

Rob Lowe

The press concentrates on a divorce an actor's going through and they ignore the good performances he gives, or the causes that he works for.

Ricki Lake

I had a really kind of yucky divorce and it was really challenging to get over that.

Ricki Lake

It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.

Richard Ford

For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of amusement and private derision which I thought about at night to make myself feel better.

Reba McEntire

When I left, after my divorce, when I left Oklahoma, I never looked back. It was the future. It was looking forward from then on.

Tracy Letts

Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

Valerie Bertinelli

I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.

Robyn Carr

We were far more civilized in our divorce than we had ever been in marriage. It seemed we'd finally found something we could do together amicably.

Robin Williams

It's cheaper to keep her.

Samantha Bee

Everybody is agreeing so tersely. I just had a flashback to the month before my parents finally admitted they were getting a divorce.

Ruth Gordon

In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.

Wendy Williams

I'm for gay marriage. I've been married for 14 years. Marriage is not for everybody, it's not easy and divorce is there for a reason. If a gay person wants to get married, get married.