Combat Quote by Honore de Balzac

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

— Honore de Balzac

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

— Honore de Balzac

“Marriage is a civil contract; people marry to better their worldly condition and improve appearances; it is an affair of house and furniture, of…

— Charles Dickens

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

— Honore de Balzac

“our species’ most basic needs (food, shelter, safety) must be met before we can pursue more sophisticated emotional or social desires like prestige and…

— Mandy Len Catron

L'adulte' re introduit l'esprit dans la lettre quebien souvent le mariage e u" t laisse e morte. Adultery breathes new life into marriages which…

— Marcel Proust

“Marriage is not comfortable and harmonious. Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner,…

— Anonymous

“Heiraten heißt das Mögliche t(h)un, einander zum Ekel zu werden. (Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other.)”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In marriage, we may learn to check our words, and to submerge those feelings and actions which will inevitably lead to strife, but we…

— Gaynor Arnold

Marriage: This terrible insoluble problem of civilisation, which created all the evil. This unnatural state of union in disunion which exacted impossibilities and forced…

— Rosa Campbell Praed

“The notion of marriage as a union between two sovereign selves affirms virtues like independence, initiative, and self-reliance. Yet while attending to the virtues…

— Barbara Dafoe Whitehead