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• It [marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne...
• It happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. v...
• Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.
  -- Montaigne...
• Six days after the Creation, Adam was still alone in the Garden of Eden, and getting pretty desperate.
  God!" he cried, "rescue me from loneliness and despair!...
• Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)...
• Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out.
  -- Di Peatli...
• Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men.
  -- John Webster (c. 1580-1625) -- The White Devil, Act v, Sc. 2...
• Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.
  -- John Webster (c. 1580-1625) -- The White Devil, Act iv, Sc. 4...
• Condemn you me for that the duke did love me? So may you blame some fair and crystal river For that some melancholic, distracted man Hath drown'd himself in 't.
  -- John Webster (c. 1580-1625) -- The White Devil, Act iii, Sc. 2...