Honore de Balzac Quotes

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

Marriage is more complex than we think.

Marriage is a pretty amazing thing when you think about it. For two people to live together for so long under the same roof is a big accomplishment. Fifty-year anniversaries are becoming extinct, yet again proving that long marriages deserve awards and praise. Sometimes I see old people in restaurants sitting together eating their meals and I watch them. Sometimes it makes me sad. They don't even talk. Is it because they have nothing else to say, or can they simply read each other's mind by now?

Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far.

You told me you believed marriage was for other people." "You're the only man who could make me believe that it's for me, too. Although when you get down to it, love is what's real. I still say marriage is just a piece of paper." Jack smiled. "Let's find out," he said, and he pulled me down to the bed with him. Jack & Ella

Being married, I would say most relationships are pretty codependent in some ways.

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

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.

When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him.

The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.

Marriage is... OK, it's rooted and grounded on love and attraction.

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.

I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Marriage gives you a new respect for a person.

I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.

Love without conversation is impossible.

Some people say the reason I am not married is that I don't understand small business and the toughest small business in the world is a family. But when you are happy and feel every minute of your life, what is the reason to get married?

I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.

There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife.

I think that you can get more passionate about somebody the longer you're with them and the more you know them and the more you go through together. Being married is definitely better than it's cracked up to be I think.

I don't think having separate bathrooms is a key to a successful marriage, if you love one another.

I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'