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It (marriage) happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
Michel De Montaigne
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The reason why so few marriages are happy, is, because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

jonathan swift

— 1711Thoughts onVarious Subjects.

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The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.

karen blixen

— "The Dreamers"

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God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.


— Quoted in Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell, A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations (1992), p. 22

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Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we wish to teach them to sing?

jean paul

— P. 556. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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The mind must free itself from all kinds of “schools,” religions, sects, beliefs, etc. All those “cages” are obstacles which render the mind incapable of thinking freely. It is necessary for the mind to become free of the illusions of this world and become a fine and marvelous instrument of the Inner Being.

samael aun weor

— Zodiacal Course

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

Michel de Montaigne

— Book III, ch. 5. Upon some Verses of Virgil

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To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apartheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.

peter singer

— Ch. 4: Becoming a Vegetarian (p. 162)

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Wolves housed in cages which are far too small, are still among the most pitiful of all caged animals.


— Conrad Lorenz, King Solomon's Ring (1952).

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Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we wish to teach them to sing?

jean paul

— Jean Paul, p. 556. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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Orangutans are skeptical Of changes in their cages, And the zookeeper is very fond of rum.

paul simon

— Paul Simon, Bookends, (1968), "At The Zoo"

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Object in/ and space – the first impulse may be to give the object – a position – to place the object. (The object had a position to begin with.) Next – to change the position of the object. – Rauschenberg’s early sculptures – A board with some rocks on it. The rocks can be anywhere on the board. - Cage’s Japanese rock garden – The rocks can be anywhere (within the garden)…

jasper johns

— Book C (sketchbook), c. 1970; as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 70

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A Prayer for the Wild at Heart That Are Kept in cages

tennessee williams

— This is the subtitle of the play

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