Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
As Indian citizens, we subsist on a regular diet of caste massacres and nuclear tests, mosque breakings and fashion shows, church burnings… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius Copy Share Image
“If you think that educating your girl is enough for her to tackle the boundaries of tradition, then you are wrong. You… — Neelam Saxena Chandra Copy Share Image
“The purpose behind your aggravating persistence eludes me, sirrah. What is it exactly that you wish to know? Lord Lucien is a… — Marsha Canham Copy Share Image
If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I like Daniel. He takes care of you." I blinked. "Oh my God. Did you really just say that? He takes care… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
What philosopher of the schoolroom, with the mental dowry of four summers, ever questions the power of the wand that opened the… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
My dowry is thirty-five. A year.” His brows climbed. “You’re joking.” “I would never joke about money with a notorious thief. Just… — Shana Abe Copy Share Image
She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
You have your whole life ahead of you. Be smart. Study hard and be independent. I'm afraid the chances of your getting… — Adeline Yen Mah Copy Share Image
A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
If I do marry, I'll expect a pretty serious dowry. I'm talking goats, pigs, chickens, the works. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
Money, when considered as the fruit of many years' industry, as the reward of labor, sweat and toil, as the widow's dowry… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; which therein works a miracle in Nature, making them lightest… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
