Authors - Honore de Balzac
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Quote 1767by Anonymous on 16/01/2011
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Quote 6457by Anonymous on 19/09/2011
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Quote 7706by Anonymous on 28/01/2012
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
Quote 7870by Anonymous on 26/02/2012
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Quote 8313by Anonymous on 04/05/2012
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Quote 8373by Anonymous on 07/05/2012
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Quote 8440by Anonymous on 13/05/2012
I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.
Quote 8617by Anonymous on 20/05/2012
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Quote 9017by Anonymous on 10/06/2012
Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.
Quote 9171by Anonymous on 23/06/2012
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Quote 9337by Anonymous on 12/07/2012
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Quote 13519by Anonymous on 31/07/2013
An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.