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Marriage Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
- No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
- The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
- One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than…
- Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
- A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.
- Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.
- The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.
- Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their…
- Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings…
- Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.
- Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
- A woman who has made fun of her husband can love him no more
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