Dowry Quotes

• Cualquier joven que ponga la dote como condición para casarse desacredita su educación y a su país y deshonra a la mujer.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Women, Young

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.213, Rajpal & Sons

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• As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

  Plauto

  Girl, Wise, Women

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• The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

  Juvenal

  Wife, Objects, Attraction

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• Demasiadas personas abrazan la religión por los mismos motivos que toman a una compañera en matrimonio, no por verdadero amor a la persona, sino por una gran dote.

  Hosea Ballou

  People, Embrace, Wedlock

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• You have your whole life ahead of you. Be smart. Study hard and be independent. I'm afraid the chances of your getting a dowry are slim. You must rely on yourself. No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge. The world is changing. You must make your own life outside this home.

  Adeline Yen Mah

  Smart, Independent, Home

  Adeline Yen Mah (1997). “Falling leaves return to their roots”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• Si te casas, te daré esta plaga por dote: seas casto como el hielo, puro como la nieve, no escaparás a la calumnia.

  William Shakespeare

  Calumnia Es, Hielo, Nieve

  William Shakespeare (1823). "Las obras dramáticas de William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings", p.920

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• The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

  Horace

  Family, Parent, Virtue

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• Como ciudadanos indios, subsistimos con una dieta regular de masacres de castas y pruebas nucleares, rupturas de mezquitas y desfiles de moda, quemas de iglesias y expansión de las redes de telefonía móvil, trabajo en régimen de servidumbre y revolución digital, infanticidio femenino y caída del NASDAQ, maridos que siguen quemando a sus mujeres por la dote y nuestra deliciosa reserva de Miss Mundos. Lo que resulta difícil de aceptar, tanto personal como políticamente, es su naturaleza esquizofrénica.

  Arundhati Roy

  Moda, Esposo, Celdas

  Arundhati Roy (2001). "Power Politics", South End Pr

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• She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.

  Victor Hugo

  Lovely, Gold, Blonde

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables: World Classic”, p.158, World Classic

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• Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

  Ovid

  Marriage, Society, Married

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

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• It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.

  Decimius Magnus Ausonius

  Misery, Happens

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• A great dowry is a bed full of brables.
  [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

  George Herbert

  Cama

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• If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it is the girl with the smallest dowry who, to my knowledge, consumes the most, to infuriate her husband. All the same, it is only fair that the marriage should pay for past pleasures, since it will scarcely procure any in the future.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Matrimonio, Chica, Dinero

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• I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
  [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]

  Plauto

  Taken, Wife, Sovereignty

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• The arrows are from her dowry.

  Juvenal

  Flechas

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• If I do marry, I'll expect a pretty serious dowry. I'm talking goats, pigs, chickens, the works.

  Dov Davidoff

  Pigs, Talking, Goats

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• Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Wine, Men, He Man

  Evelyn Waugh (1947*). “Wine in peace and war”

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• I like Daniel. He takes care of you." I blinked. "Oh my God. Did you really just say that? He takes care of me?" Dad flushed. "I didn't mean it like-" "Takes care of me? Did I go to sleep and wake up in the nineteenth century?" I looked down at my jeans and T-shirt. "Ack! I can't go to school like this. Where's my corset? My bonnet?" Dad sighed as Mom walked in with her empty teacup. "What did I miss?" She said. "Dad's trying to marry me off to Daniel." I looked at him. "You know, if you offer him a new truck for a dowry, he might go for it.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Mom, Dad, Mean

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• No siempre puedo simpatizar con esa demanda que oímos con tanta frecuencia de cosas baratas. Las cosas pueden ser demasiado baratas. Son demasiado baratas cuando el hombre o la mujer que las produce en la granja o el hombre o la mujer que las produce en la fábrica no obtiene de ellas salarios dignos con un margen para la vejez y para una dote para los incidentes que vendrán después. Compadezco al hombre que quiere un abrigo tan barato que el hombre o la mujer que produce la tela o le da forma de prenda se muera de hambre en el proceso.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Hombres, Edad, Doe

  "La lluvia aún le persigue: The President's Vermont Trip Marked by Storms". Discurso en Rutland, Vermont, recogido en The New York Times, edición del 29 de agosto de 1891, p. 5,

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• Mirad la belleza, y veréis que se compra por el peso; lo cual obra un milagro en la Naturaleza, haciéndolas más ligeras las que más lo llevan: así son esos crujientes y serpenteantes mechones dorados que hacen tan desenfrenados jugueteos con el viento sobre la supuesta equidad, a menudo conocidos por ser la dote de una segunda cabeza, el cráneo que los engendró en el sepulcro.

  William Shakespeare

  Skulls, Hair, Wind

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.56

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• My dowry is thirty-five. A year.” His brows climbed. “You’re joking.” “I would never joke about money with a notorious thief. Just imagine, in a mere two years you’re at a profit.” “How I adore a woman who does mathematics in her head.” “I can forge signatures as well.” “Splendid. Exactly the bride I’ve been hoping for.

  Shana Abe

  Years, Two, Signatures

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• ¿Qué filósofo de aula, con la dote mental de cuatro veranos, cuestiona alguna vez el poder de la varita que abrió los ojos oscuros de la bella princesa, o resta una sola pulgada a la zancada de siete leguas?

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Bella, Verano, Princesa

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). "Los placeres de la literatura"

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• Money, when considered as the fruit of many years' industry, as the reward of labor, sweat and toil, as the widow's dowry and children's portion, and as the means of procuring the necessaries and alleviating the afflictions of life, and making old age a scene of rest, has something in it sacred that is not to be sported with, or trusted to the airy bubble of paper currency.

  Thomas Paine

  Niños, Media, Años

  Thomas Paine (1830). “Brief sketch of the life of Thomas Paine. Common sense. Epistle to Quakers. The crisis. Public good. Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Dissertations on government, the affairs of the bank, and paper money. Miscellaneous”, p.404

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• Toda criatura racional tiene toda la naturaleza como dote y patrimonio. Es suya, si quiere. Puede despojarse de ella; puede arrastrarse hasta un rincón y abdicar de su reino, como hace la mayoría de los hombres, pero tiene derecho al mundo por su constitución.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Men, Humanity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson David Mikics (2012). "The Annotated Emerson", p.39, Harvard University Press.

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