Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honore de Balzac

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

Honore de Balzac

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Honore de Balzac

A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

Honore de Balzac

To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

Honore de Balzac

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 inconveniences.

Honore de Balzac

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

Honore de Balzac

A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

Honore de Balzac

The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

Honore de Balzac

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

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Isak Dinesen

We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.

Irvin D. Yalom

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

Iris Murdoch

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Iris Murdoch

Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.

Iris Murdoch

People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.

Iris Murdoch

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Ilka Chase

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.

Gloria Vanderbilt

Nobody should get married at 17.

Isaac Asimov

Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.

Francis Quarles

Death aims with fouler spiteAt fairer marks.

Richard Ford

If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.

Gloria Steinem

Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally correct in their assumption that it is important for a woman to have a man. What they do not understand is how pathetically little difference it makes what man.

Gloria Steinem

The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).

Gloria Steinem

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

Gloria Steinem

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Geraldine Ferraro

The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper.

Harry S Truman

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

J. M. W. Turner

I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort.

J. Paul Getty

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

H. L. Mencken

The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.

H. L. Mencken

He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.