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

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

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

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.