#alimony

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

#career #do the right thing #ended #had #herman

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. ↗

— John Cleese

#alimony #always #become #business #compulsion

Alimony is the curse of the writing class. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#class #curse #writing

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#alimony #buying #dead #dead horse #hay

Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#devil #happy #pay

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. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#american #bills #got #gotta #great

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. ↗

— Gay Talese

#alimony #better #court #deal #different

Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse. ↗

— Arthur Baer

#buying #dead #dead horse #horse #like

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

— Don Adams

#been #child #child support #i #joke

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

— John Barrymore

#how #month #never #pay #realize