Quotes About Alimony

I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay and alimony, and so they take a job at a less-than-reputable paper. You know, you do what you gotta do.

I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not by much.

Men aren't able to retire and are going bankrupt making alimony payments.

Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.

She's suing him for alimony. She would actually like to settle, but he prefers to go to court. That's not surprising—she can only gain, so she's risk averse. He, on the other hand, faces options that are all bad, so he'd rather take the risk.

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.

If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price we have to pay for sweeping a woman off hers.

Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

How the hell can you be liberated and accept alimony?" I said. Again the smile, innocent, beautiful, glorious, and satanic. "Exploit the oppressor," she said.

In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands.

I used to just do movies for alimony purposes, between plays.

My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.

You never realize how short a month is until you have to pay alimony.

My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.

Divorce is a duel force applied on the husband only. The first by which the he gives away own kids to his wife ruefully and the second by which he offers her alimony. It is for him double whammy.

Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.

Mrs. Spinney had red hair and alimony;

I suppose you could say that Paul is a … hustler? His rich wife Corina paid him grandly when they divorced, wouldn't you say?" "That's called alimony," I laughed.

People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.

They lingered over their coffee discussing alimony.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Divorced, they uniformly decried the size of their alimony checks and the injustice of their prenups while refusing to seek gainful employment. Instead

I was married to someone who had more money than me, but because I was the stronger earner and we lived in California - a shocking thing slapped me in the face when we divorced and I had to end up paying him my earnings.

Love is grand, but divorce is a hundred grand. But enough about that.