Desperate 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 desperate to get out...”

— Michel de Montaigne

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

— Michel de Montaigne

Marriage is like a public toilet. Those waiting outside are desperate to get in & those inside are desperate to come out...

— Azgraybebly Josland

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 like a fort, those who are in want out, those who are out want in.

— Arab Proverb

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

Marriage is like a vacuum cleaner. You stick it to your ear and it sucks out all your energy and ambition.

— Marlo Thomas

Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples.

— Susan Sontag

Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.

— Fay Weldon

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

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

— Leonardo da Vinci