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• 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.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)...
• T is just like a summer bird-cage in a garden,--the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.
  -- John Webster (c. 1580-1625) -- The White Devil, Act i, Sc. 2...
• Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
• The conviction of wisdom is the plague of man. -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
• Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.
  -- Montaigne...
• A strong memory is generally coupled with infirm judgment.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)...
• My reason is not framed to bend or stoop; my knees are. -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
• No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)...