The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
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.
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.
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.
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce.
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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.
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.
How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me.