Joyce Brothers Quotes

Divorce: fission after fusion.

In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant "divide." In truth, it comes from "divertere," which means "to divert." I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else.

Real divorce takes place without a decree.

Who among us is not thinking about divorce, except for a few tiny-minded stick-in-the-muds who don't count?

People struggle in marriages and more than 55% of people get divorced.

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

Initiating and going through a divorce with four kids can be a brutal experience, but also a tempering one. It gave me perspective and insight to be able to find the love of my life.

Divorce has been very, very good to me.

The three chief causes of divorce are men, women, and marriage.

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.

The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over.

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Oprah deserves the best. I am not the best when it comes to divorce. What do I know about divorce? Nothing at that time.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

It is better to point out your own mistakes than have somebody else do it.

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.

Divorce has become so easy nowadays that women have stopped crying at weddings.

I think that divorce is a vital escape hatch for people stuck in marriage and it is not a sentence of doom either for adults or children. The community should develop better support systems for saving or restoring potentially healthy marriages.But we should also help people who decide to divorce have healthier partings.

Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does.