Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eva Mendes

You can't do sweatpants... ladies, number one cause of divorce in America, sweatpants, no!

Evan Esar

Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.

Evan Esar

Divorce is the price people play for playing with matches.

Evan Esar

Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables.

Evan Esar

The three chief causes of divorce are men, women, and marriage.

Evan Esar

An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.

Evan Esar

Divorce has become so easy nowadays that women have stopped crying at weddings.

Ivana Trump

I tell you, if I'm going to go through a divorce, I would date again a younger man. Because I have so much energy, there's no way an older man can keep up with me.

Before we drained out one another's force With lies, self-denial, unspoken regret And the sick eyes that blame; before the divorce And the treachery.

Gwen Stefani

I was down after divorce - I was all the way down. And I just felt like, "God, I gotta turn this around. I can't go down like this. I have to know that this is happening for a reason." And I knew that I had to turn to music.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.

Jack LaLanne

Maybe 50 or 60 percent of all divorces are predicated on someone's being physically unfit. Who wants to live with negativism? Love goes out the window.

Mona Simpson

It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems is that once divorce is possible, once break-ups are possible, it can all become a little less momentous.

Lois Lowry

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.

Jon Stewart

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

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.

Joanna Garcia

You have to be with the right person. Its so much more important to meet the right person, whether youre married or not, than it is to get married and get a divorce.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him.

Elizabeth Gilbert

What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.

Jimmy Fallon

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.

Joel Osteen

We deal with people that are going through divorces and that are facing life-threatening illnesses, and I'm giving them hope. And to me, I don't think there's anything "lite" about that.

Lindsey Vonn

Divorce doesn't fit my cookie-cutter image.

Lee Tergesen

I went through a divorce right as we were starting the show. My divorce became final right after we started shooting the first year, and during that time I was in such a low place.

Lee Radziwill

Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.

Lee Trevino

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

Joseph Heller

If a man is going to leave one wife to marry another, it's better if he divorces the first before he marries the second.

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. . . .

Monica Bellucci

When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.

Paula White

No one goes into a marriage - when I went into my marriage many years ago, I thought I'd end my life with Randy [White]. And the divorce is not anything that I ever wanted to happen.

Rachel Cusk

Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.

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.

John le Carre

Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time, in our considered view, that you were present at certain other crucial moments in your history.