Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Robertson

Any woman who votes for no-fault divorce is like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving.

Margaret Mead

I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.

Margaret Mead

People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.

Melissa Etheridge

I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce.

Oscar Wilde

Divorces are made in heaven.

Oscar Wilde

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

Madonna Ciccone

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

Merle Shain

Perhaps the old view of 'Me breadwinner, you hausfrau' worked for our grandparents, when people obligingly popped off before boring each other to death, but it won't work any longer because we are living too long and divorce is needed today to do what death acomplished more economically before.

Merle Shain

No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.

Merle Haggard

I don't think there's ever been a friendly divorce.

Mason Cooley

People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.

Michael Crawford

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

Michael Chabon

What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.

Michel Faber

But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes advantage of His inattention to grant an illicit mercy. God...is an Anglican, whereas Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have an uneasy relationship, unable to agree on anything, except that if They divorce, the Devil will leap gleefully into the breach.

Martha Stewart

I always disagreed with the separation of the name and the brand and the person To build on that name and brand is one thing. To divorce the name and the brand from the person was not an approach that I agreed with.

Mark Ruffalo

I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.

Mary Garden

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.

Harvey Fierstein

I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife.

John Galbraith

The happiest time in any man's life is just after the first divorce

Edward Albee

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

Oliver Stone

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Olga Kurylenko

I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Most people wish they could erase suffering out of the dictionary. Today's culture of comfort and instant gratification has no patience for suffering - most people want to drug it, escape it, divorce it; do anything but live with it.

Kurt Cobain

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

Hedy Lamarr

The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.

George Carlin

Personally, emotionally, I'd rather divorce myself from the world than face the heartbreak of partial success. Because partial success implies overwhelming failure.

Gene Simmons

The biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

Gene Simmons

The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

Larry Gelbart

Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

Mother Teresa

On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . .