"Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds……" — Michel de Montaigne
"Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape."
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649 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne has 649 quotes on this site.
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against…
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Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a…
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Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal…
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care…
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many…
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It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole,…
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
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More Bird Quotes
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Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
— Neil Armstrong
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What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and…
— David Attenborough
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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone…
— David Attenborough
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Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know…
— David Attenborough
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
— John James Audubon
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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
— Abu Bakr
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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that…
— Douglas Adams
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California…
— Roseanne Barr
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
— James M. Barrie
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I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
— Lynda Barry
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A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
— Drew Barrymore
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