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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.
  -- Montaigne...
• 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...
• There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)...
• 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)
• 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...
• For a desperate disease a desperate cure. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap.
  iii, The Custom of the Isle of Cea...
• My reason is not framed to bend or stoop; my knees are. -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)