Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.

You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.

Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon.

Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.

They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong!

I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich.

Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol.

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.

When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.

Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.

I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.

Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible.

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do.

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.

I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened.

We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.

But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.

No adultery is bloodless.

Heroes and heroines don't commit adultery.

I don't appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me.

There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.

Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.