Honore de Balzac Quotes

It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.

You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

You have to fight for your marriage, do whatever it takes. The commitment has to be there. And if you don't have a sense of humor, I don't know how anybody makes it.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Staying focused is hard work and staying married is even harder.

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.

If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.

Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.

One of the things you learn when you get married is how you need to always work on continuing to make it better.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

What I would say is that vows and rings don't change anything: the challenges are the same. Every day is just a conscious commitment to making the next day better.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.