“ It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person. ”
- Jean Harris- Copy
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“ To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, "What's it for?". ”
- Fulghum Robert- Copy
- 1.2K
“ 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. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
- 2.9K
“ We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
- 922
“ Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans. ”
- Jeff Greenfield- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The stuff of thought is not caged to the brain, but is scattered all over the body… ”
- Richard M. Bergland- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. ”
- Mary Wollstonecraft- Copy
- 2K
“ The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught. ”
- Michelene Wand- Copy
- 2.8K
“ La Cage aux Folles is a square love story in titillating drag that has become the Charley's Aunt of the 1980s. ”
- Molly Haskell- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. ”
- Michel de Montaigne- Copy
- 605
“ Coming up to the podium this morning, I feel a little bit like a pork chop being tossed into a wolf cage. ”
- Frank H. Murkowski- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I never use a score when conducting my orchestra. Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion? ”
- Dimitri Mitropoulos- Copy
- 475
“ Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver. ”
- Laurence J. Peter- Copy
- 3K
“ I did go through a Goth thing, but that was a long time ago. I just like artists that shake it up, that piss people off or make people think or rattle the cage somehow. ”
- Lisa Marie Presley- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras. ”
- Margaret Truman- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage. ”
- J. Jacques- Copy
- 3K
“ Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. ”
- Millicent Fenwick- Copy
- 809
“ Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Did you exchange a walk-on part in a war, for a leading role in a cage? ”
- Pink Floyd- Copy
- 623
“ In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom. ”
- Nicanor Parra- Copy
- 256
“ God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. ”
- Jacques Deval- Copy
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