Divorce Defined

The law is silent during war. - Cicero

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce. - Groucho Marx

Don't judge folks by their relatives. - Unknown

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Gravity isn't easy, but it's the law. - Unknown

Don't marry for money; divorce for money. - Wendy Liebman

Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper. - Taylor J Reid

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse. - Groucho Marx

Alimony: the ransom that the happy pay to the devil. - H L Mencken

Lawyers are ideological enemies of informal justice. - Richard L Abel

Law of Inflation: Whatever goes up will go up some more. - Kin Hubbard

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers. - Elbert Hubbard

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law. - Jeremy Bentham

He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house. - Zsa Zsa Gabor

The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. - Yiddish Proverb

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. - Hubert Humphrey

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. - H L Mencken

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. - Abraham Lincoln

Lawsuit: a machine you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. - Ambrose Bierce

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes. - Samuel Butler

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. - Blaise Pascal

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. - Sally Field

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings and lawyers. - Richard Pryor

True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

You cannot live without the lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them. - Joseph H Choate

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. - D.H. Lawrence

Lawyers are operators of toll bridges which anyone in search of justice must pass. - Jane Bryant Quinn

On Valentine's Day, I wired flowers for my mother-in-law, but she found the fuse. - Milton Berle

My husband and I had our best sex during our divorce. It was like cheating on our lawyers. - Priscilla Lopez

The practice of medicine occurs even in primitive society, but law accompanies civilization. - Saying

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. - Malcolm S Forbes

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. - Agatha Christie

The trouble with our laws these days is that the criminals know their rights better than their wrongs. - Unknown

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. - Edsgar Dijkstra

When I was born my mother was terribly disappointed. Not that she wanted a girl - she wanted a divorce. - Woody Allen

Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty. - Felix G Rohatyn

Why don't you ever hear of a lawyer getting attacked by a shark at the beach? Professional courtesy. - Thomas F Shubnell

I don't want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire one to tell me how to do what I want to do. - J P Morgan

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. - Brendan Behan

There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers. - Melvin Belli

One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. - Richard P Feynman

Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles. - John Wycliffe

Men became scientific because they expected law in nature and they expected law in nature because they believed in a lawgiver. - Ravi Zacharias

There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace and his or her heart for justice. - Unknown

Anyone who takes it on himself, on his own authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones. - Denis Diderot

Bakinmyday: A law passed in the early 1900s that made it mandatory to build all schools at least 15 miles from all future grandfathers - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. - Martin Luther King, Jr

While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. - Eugene V Debs

Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to understand; understand to judge. - Apothegm of Narda

A lawyer's performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts. - Melvin Belli