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Here is a sympathetic compilation of quotes from those who have felt the pain, loss, and gain of life after marriage.

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Publié par	Crombie Jardine Publishing Limited
Date de parution	01 juin 2006
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781848393585
Langue	English

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Divorce – Get Over It!

Compiled by Gerd de Ley

Crombie Jardine PUBLISHING LIMITED 13 Nonsuch Walk, Cheam, Surrey, SM2 7LG www.crombiejardine.com

Print edition first published by Crombie Jardine Publishing Limited in 2006

Copyright © Crombie Jardine Publishing Limited, 2006

This eBook edition by Summersdale Publishers Ltd. 2010

All rights are reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

eISBN 978-1-84839-358-5

Compiled by Gerd de Ley Translations by David Potter

CONTENTS

USEFUL TERMINOLOGY THE HONEYMOON IS OVER FALLING OUT OF LOVE THE PAIN OF SEPARATION REASONS TO GET A DIVORCE THE UNOFFICIAL DIVORCE LAWS THE DOS AND DON'TS YOU'D BETTER GET YOURSELF A LAWYER SETTLEMENTS AND SPOILS DECREE NISI DECREE ABSOLUTE BEING SINGLE AGAIN SELF ESTEEM YOU'RE NOT ALONE HUSBANDS WIVES IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH TILL DEATH DO US PART WHO GETS THE KIDS? MOVING ON GETTING EVEN MARRYING AGAIN WILL IT LAST THIS TIME? CHIN UP FINAL WORDS

'The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.' Anatole Broyard
USEFUL TERMINOLOGY

Alimony

' . . . a deal by which a woman profits from her mistakes.'
Robert Myers

'Bounty after the mutiny.'
Johnny Carson

'Alimony - the root of all evil.'
Jilly Cooper

'. . . billing minus cooing.'
Mary Dorsey

'. . . the life long sentence for not committing a murder.'
Alexander Pola

'Alimony – the screwing you get for the screwing you got.'
Chris Szurgot

'Alimony – disinterest, compounded annually.'
Walter McDonald

' . . . the high cost of leaving.'
Joey Adams

'Alimony – a system whereby, if two people make a mistake, one of them continues to pay for it.'
Peggy Joyce

'. . . the fee you pay for name dropping.'
Bill Sadgarden

' . . . posthumous entertainment tax.'
Henning Venske

Acrimony

' . . . what a man gives his divorced wife.'
Robert Myers

'Holy acrimony is another name for matrimony.'
Anon

Bachelor

'. . . a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.'
Don Quinn

Bachelorhood

' . . . one way of keeping all that alimony money for yourself.'
Gene Perret

Bigamy
'. . . one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.'
Oliver Herford

'Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.'
Oscar Wilde

Desertion

' . . . the poor man's method of divorce.'
Arthur Hays

Divorce

' . . . the future tense of marriage.'
Robert Myers

'Divorce – from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.'
Robin Williams

'Divorce – nature's way of recycling.'
Jasmine Birtles

' . . . escape from the frying pan of social and sexual bondage into the fire of dire economic need.'
Chaz Bufe

'Divorce – going through a change of wife.'
Henny Youngman

' . . . the price people pay for playing with matches.'
Henny Youngman

' . . . a game played by lawyers.'
Cary Grant

'. . . one of the measures you can take in the interests of crime-prevention.'
Alain Germoz

'. . . fission after fusion.'
Rita Mae Brown

'The one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.'