"So many persons think divorce a panacea for every ill, who find out, when they try it, that the remedy is worse than the disease." - Dorothy Dix, Dorothy Dix, Her Book

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

"Alimony-The ransom that the happy pay to the devil." - Henry Louis Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

"Alimony - The ransom that the happy pay to the devil." - H.L. MENCKEN, A Mencken Chrestomathy

"Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity that is found only in men who are giving away somebody else's cash." - P.G. WODEHOUSE, Louder and Funnier