Dowry Quote by Horace Download Open image “The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dowry Family Parent Parenting Virtue
To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and… — Plato 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
The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world. — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
“Looking at the mother, you might hope that the daughter would become like her, which is a prospective advantage equal to a dowry—the mother… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
It is generally admitted, and very frequently proved, that virtue and genius, and all the natural good qualities which men possess, are derived from… — Theodore Hook Copy Share Image
Being a mother is the highest paid job in the world. Since the payment is in pure LOVE. — Amina Sambo Copy Share Image
It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That which parents should take care of... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature. — John Locke Copy Share Image
For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)” — Horace Copy Share Image
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace Copy Share Image
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing to die for ones country. — Horace Copy Share Image
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. — Horace Copy Share Image
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted… — Horace Copy Share Image
“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.” — Horace Copy Share Image
Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but… — 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 and expanding… — 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 have to… — 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 fine, noble… — 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, thou shalt… — 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 is the… — 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 of me?"… — 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 dark eyes… — 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
