#marriage

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#hand #hope #into #like #marriage

It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend. ↗

— Kathy Valentine

#different #everybody #experience #friend #how

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens? ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#husbands #lovelessness #marriage #married-life #matrimony

You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#crises #escape #ever #feel #funny

The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology. ↗

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

#father #grounded #marriage #mother #our

Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#her #i #marriage #me #other

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year. ↗

— Bette Davis

#again #dead #dollars #fifteen #found

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did. ↗

— Bette Davis

#afraid #brought #conventions #did #end

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know. ↗

— Bette Davis

#affair #boring #getting #good #i

Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#commissioners #convictions #governments #happened #marriage