The institution of marriage
Marriage is a wonderful institution… but who wants to live in an institution. William Carlos Williams
DetailsWhat marriage means
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. Reflections of a Bachelor, 1878
DetailsOther 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
DetailsLove, marriage & divorce
Love, the quest, marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. Helen Rowland
DetailsParental Irresponsibility
Well I thought it was worth waiting 17 years for and with a lovely little jibe at the new parenting truths. Classic line from Bart: “I want one of those dads who – you know – what’s the word? Is the same in the evening as he was in the morning? I know : consistent”.
DetailsNorman Mailer
“You don’t know a woman until you’ve met her in court”
Books by Henry Cecil
Fantastic books to read: Anything by Henry Cecil such as Brothers in Law, Daughters in Law, Fathers in Law and pretty much anything else he wrote. Henry Cecil was a Judge in the County Court many many years ago: his books have an old-world charm but help anyone to understand the social ins and outs…
DetailsStill nothing changes!
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they don’ understand one another, but that they have, at last begun to. Plutarch
DetailsNothing new under the sun
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ‘Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful? holding out his shoe asked them whether it was not new and well made. ‘Yet’ added he, ‘none of you can tell me where it pinches me.’Plutarch
DetailsSamuel Butler
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds; they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.
DetailsUgo Bettie
I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
