A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. ~Honore de Balzac
Marriage Morning Good
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. ~Honore de Balzac
Mother's Day Mother Future
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. ~Honore de Balzac
Love Woman Sea
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. ~Honore de Balzac
Wife Flower Wedding
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. ~Honore de Balzac
Man Color Existence
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. ~Honore de Balzac
Bureaucracy Giant Operated
Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. ~Honore de Balzac
Nature God Clouds
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. ~Honore de Balzac
Love End Great
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. ~Honore de Balzac
Art Eye Hand
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. ~Honore de Balzac
Up Bottom Pleasure
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action. ~Honore de Balzac
Action Easy Difficult
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. ~Honore de Balzac
Legal Spider Laws
Love is the poetry of the senses. ~Honore de Balzac
Love Love Is Poetry
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. ~Honore de Balzac
Woman Man Dating
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love. ~Honore de Balzac
Love Woman Stupid
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. ~Honore de Balzac
Marriage Anniversary Soul
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. ~Honore de Balzac
Society Look Perfect
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. ~Honore de Balzac
Mom Motherhood Art
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ~Honore de Balzac
Mother Mom Forgiveness
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. ~Honore de Balzac
Marriage Me Trying