The inevitability of a court case
A reasonable man can get out of most any trouble, except marriage, without going to law. Charles Darling, Scintillaw Juris, 1877
The sentence of marriage
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. Groucho Marx
Love & friendship
Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people—but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship. Nietzsche
My wife doesn’t understand me
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they “don’t understand” one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to. Helen Rowland
A clean break
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. Jean Kerr
Bigamy
Bigamy: Two rites making a wrong. Mary Kay Blakely
Incompatibility
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, one is male and the other female. Karl Kraus
The institution of marriage
Marriage is a wonderful institution… but who wants to live in an institution. William Carlos Williams
What marriage means
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. Reflections of a Bachelor, 1878
Other people’s money
Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else’s cash. Helen Rowland
