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Quotes About Alimony

try to get money from him that's not in the form of alimony. You won't get taxed that way. Get him off your insurance plan.
~ Kristan Higgins
Alimony: the cash surrender value of a husband.
~ Anonymous
Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
~ H. L. Mencken
Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them continues to pay for it.
~ Peggy Hopkins Joyce
The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage.
~ Cher
I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.
~ Linda Evans
A faithful husband is one whose alimony check is always on time.
~ Anonymous
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.
~ Lewis Black
Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
~ Groucho Marx
Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.
~ Groucho Marx
The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.
~ Fannie Hurst
Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
~ Arthur Baer
Alimony — The ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
~ H. L. Mencken
Alimony: the ransom the happy pay to the devil.
~ H. L. Mencken
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
~ Lee Trevino
She said they should view the marriage as a learning experience and, rather than have any regrets, they should focus instead on the alimony
~ Woody Allen
I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.
~ Linda Evans
Sometimes they would just pay me to stay home and not do anything else, which sounds fantastic but doesn't do much for your ego. Its probably a little like getting alimony-the money is nice but has a nasty aftertaste.
~ Craig Ferguson
California has legislatively barred alimony payments to a dependent spouse who has attempted to murder the supporting spouse. Cal. Fam. Code § 4324.
~ Unknown
It really doesn't matter if I work a lot, because most of everything I earn goes to pay alimony.
~ Ken Berry
I did a lot of violent junk just because I needed the money - alimony movies, you might call them - and then I decided to start turning down the junk scripts and wait for something better, no matter how long.
~ Jason Robards
Maybe it was the hip-sprung way she moved, high-assed and shiny, alert to surfaces, like a character in a B movie soaked in alimony and gin.
~ Don DeLillo
You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.
~ John Barrymore