"It is as absurd to say that..." - Quote by Honore De Balzac
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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“A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.”
“It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.”
“The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.”
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“A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.”
“My greatest good fortune in a life of brilliant experiences has been to find you, and to lead my life with you. I don't feel far away from you out here at all. I feel very near in my heart; and also I feel that the nearer I get to honour, the nearer I am to you.”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
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“I'll tell ya, I don't get no respect... The other day, I got back from a business trip. I got in a cab and said to the driver, "Hey! Take me to where the action is!" So ya know where he took me? He took me to my house!”
“I married a man once and we had been married over a year before I found he preferred potatoes. I said, "I didn't know you loved potatoes." And he said that until he was about 13, he thought rice was potato seeds.”
“No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.”