Evan Esar Quotes

Some couples divorce because of a misunderstanding; others, because they understand each other too well.

Evan Esar

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• The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Divorce

• I'm not a divorce monger by any means, but if you're not happy in a relationship, and you've grown apart, it's not healthy for a couple to stay together. It's better for kids to see two happy parents than two miserable parents.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Happy

• Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Marriage
  • Divorce
  • View

• Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Divorce
  • Very
  • Generous

• In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Divorce

• I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I let on.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Me

• It's lonely. That's why, in many ways, the CIA is the world's biggest dating agency, I think. I imagine it's much like two actors that get married because they understand that universe. You know, I'm pretty sure the agency's divorce rate is rather high.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Why
  • High

• I am strong. I lived through a divorce, separation from my family. I never let it break me down. I’m not an alcoholic. I’ve never smoked, I’ve never done drugs. I’ve floated through the disaster of my past clean. I arrived here undamaged.

  

  Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Family
  • Done
  • Past

• Divorce is horrible. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. I don't think it's anything that's ever completely resolved.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Wish
  • Enemy
  • Divorce

• Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.

  

  Bjork
  • God
  • America
  • Nature

• It is of great concern that the fabric of African life, its very source of hope and stability, is threatened by divorce, abortion, prostitution, human trafficking, and a contraception mentality.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Life
  • Great
  • Hope

• I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.

  

  Alana Stewart
  • Growth
  • Failure
  • Path

• What I always liked about country music was the stories, the ability to talk about very real things like divorce and drinking and death and jail.

  

  Margo Price
  • Music
  • Country
  • Real

• I think it's better, if people aren't getting on, that they should divorce.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • People
  • Divorce

• Divorce is brutal and horrible and... you have to actively work to get your life back on track.

  

  Jane Kaczmarek
  • Life
  • Work
  • Divorce

• Whether you want to lose 20 pounds or 200, what the contestants on 'The Biggest Loser' have learned - and taught me - holds true: You've got to make a break. You've got to divorce yourself from the past and find a different way of living. And you can never go back.

  

  Bob Harper
  • Different
  • True
  • Past

• Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three.

  

  Keeley Hawes
  • Children
  • Divorce

• Post-divorce, the world can feel harsh and full of jagged edges.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • World
  • Divorce

• By all means I will be married if you wish it. But on these conditions: everything must be as it has been hitherto-that is, she must live in Moscow while I live in the country, and I will come and see her. ... I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Live
  • Country
  • She

• I'm kind of a gypsy, so I love living out of a suitcase and going from place to place meeting people.

  

  Jana Kramer
  • People
  • Gypsy

• Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Remember
  • You
  • Know

• No matter what Sarah Palin and these geniuses she surrounds herself with try to tell you, climate change is not a liberal versus conservative thing, but the people who profit from ignoring it want you to believe it is.

  

  Jimmy Kimmel
  • People
  • Believe
  • She

• Some couples divorce because of a misunderstanding; others, because they understand each other too well.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Divorce
  • Misunderstanding