Bird Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

— Michel de Montaigne

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out...”

— Michel de Montaigne

Marriage...we cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair…

— Michel De Montaigne

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish…

— Arabian Proverb

“De Montaigne described marriage as much like a cage full of birds, where the unmarried struggle to get in and the married struggle to…

— Fiona Paul

“Marriage is like being locked in a cage if your heart is not there.”

— TARA RAMDHAN

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

— Joan Fontaine

Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress: those who are outside want to get in, and those inside want to get out

— French Proverb

Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered through difficult…

— Adam Ross

If there are any cages in this marriage, it is I who have built them. And I who hold the key to their locks.

— Geneen Roth

“Marriage [is] two flawed people coming together to create a space of stability, love and consolation, a haven in a heartless world.”

— Timothy Keller