Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered through difficult periods in marriage dreams of escape from it.
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.