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"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
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"My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never." »Jack Benny
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"For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have." »Woody Allen
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"I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character." »Woodrow Wilson
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"Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was." »Margo Kaufman
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"When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president." »Dick Houser
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"A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce." »Don Quinn
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"Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot." »George Herbert
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"If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging." »Joe Martin
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"It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!" »Richard Jeni
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"I am a trial lawyer. ... Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit." »Mario M Cuomo
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"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer." »Robert Frost
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"Whoever said Marriage is a 5-5 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language." »Austin Elliot
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"In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity." »Lauren Bacall
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"The Devil needs a very good lawyer to prove that it is not the Satan but the people themselves who have committed so many evils!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect." »Hunter S. Thompson
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"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough." »Abraham Lincoln
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"He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"You can't divorce religious belief and public service ... I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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"If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based." »Betty Naomi Friedan
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"Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce." »Mark Twain
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"Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off." »Bill Veeck
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"The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency." »Henry David Thoreau
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"The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate." »Will Durant
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"The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure." »Joseph Heller
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"Like the old motto of a famous Sunday paper, 'All human life was there' in the stately circle of the Mountbatten-Windsors, as the family coped in semipublic with those everlasting elements of human interest-sickness, scandal, family tension and divorce." »John Pearson
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"In America every woman has her set of girl-friends some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who 'come out' together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him." »Martin Terman
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"A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500." »Benjamin H. Brewster
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