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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 desperate to get out.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)...
• It [marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne...
• 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...
• Edna: Tighten those braids, Missy...hoist your flag, Dooley.
  .. Nelson, you look adorable. Nelson: I feel like punching myself....
• 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...
• Vet: Your dog's condition has been upgraded from stable to frisky, [SLH walks out with his hind legs in a cast on rollers] and he's free to go.
  His legs should be as good as new in a few months, but in the meantime he'll have to use the wheelabout....
• Skinner walks in, sees Homer] Skinner: What's _he_ doing here?
  Bart: Well once he found out we were going to get Ned Flanders fired, he _insisted_ on helping....
• Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.