"The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin." ― Honore de Balzac Topic(s): Marriage Tags: husbands, majority, remind More From Honore de Balzac "Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane." "Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!" "A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over." More In Marriage "My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can’t decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives."― Rita Rudner "The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn’t get a divorce for almost a year."― Hedy Lamarr "My parents separated when I was four. It wasn’t the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can’t have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce."― Sophie Ellis Bextor