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

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

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 to get in, and those within despair to get out.

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

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

The birds from Taiwan were held in the same room, but not in the same cage, as the Suriname parrot.