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• 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...
• 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...
• No one can be like you. No one is that desperate.
• Marriage is a desperate thing. -- John Selden (1584-1654) -- Marriage
• 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...
• Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get ou
  and such as are out wish to get in." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Montaigne...
• For a desperate disease a desperate cure. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap.
  iii, The Custom of the Isle of Cea...