“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
“Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.”
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