Honore de Balzac
  • The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.

  • 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.

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