Frank McCourt Quotes

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

You never really know a man until you have divorced him.

'Divorce Court' is a great show.

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife.

Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.

Nobody wants to get divorced.

I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.

I never thought I would be divorced.

Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam to pay alimony to Eve, not Steve.

I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.

She seemed to mean what she said. She said pretty much this: I retained some lawyers, I have to move on with my life, I am divorcing you, and then she added, I need money.

They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window.

My advice to Hillary would be to divorce that chump.

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

Unfortunately, it's the new normal to get divorced - and divorced with children is its own soil rich with land mines. There's a lot of comedy but a lot of heartache, too.

There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.

When I talk about divorce, I am not blaming the women I've married. It's not their fault.

Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.

It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.

Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.

Let's not forget, I got divorced.