Dowry quotes, oh what a treasure trove they can be! Have you ever considered the profound wisdom they hold? With the power to inspire and educate, dowry quotes shed light on the practice's intricacies, giving us a broader perspective. Reading these quotes, we gain a deeper understanding of the cultural, social, and historical contexts of dowry. This knowledge is not just enlightening, it also serves as a reminder of our collective responsibility to promote equality and justice.
Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood. — Mahatma Gandhi
As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry. — Plautus
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. — Antisthenes
Alimony -- the ransom that the happy pay to the devil. — H. L. Mencken
Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry. — Hosea Ballou
I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
[Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.] — Plautus
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 not escape calumny. — William Shakespeare
When you marry a monkey for his wealth, the money goes but the monkey remains. — African Proverbs
The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also. — Democritus
The animals sacrificed feet of the bride during the wedding ceremony. — Turkish Proverbs
He ,who is appointed to ,cohabit with the widow shall ,approach her at night anointed with clarified butter and silent, ,and beget one son, by no means a second. — Guru Nanak
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. — Helen Rowland
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. — William Penn
Borrowed wives, like borrowed books, are seldom returned. — American Proverbs
Short Dowry Quotes
Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another. — Ovid
The great virtue of parents is a great dowry. — Horace
If I do marry, I'll expect a pretty serious dowry. I'm talking goats, pigs, chickens, the works. — Dov Davidoff
Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully. — Evelyn Waugh
It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius
A great dowry is a bed full of brables.
[A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.] — George Herbert
The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction. — Juvenal
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
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
What philosopher of the schoolroom, with the mental dowry of four summers, ever questions the power of the wand that opened the dark eyes of the beautiful princess, or subtracts a single inch from the stride of seven leagues? — Robert Aris Willmott
Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; which therein works a miracle in Nature, making them lightest that wear most of it: so are those crisped snaky golden locks which make such wanton gambols with the wind upon supposed fairness, often known to be the dowry of a second head, the skull that bred them in the sepulchre. — William Shakespeare
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
Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creepinto a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips. — Horace
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
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
In Conclusion
Now, why should we read dowry quotes? The answer is simple: they are catalysts for change. By delving into these quotes, we are actively engaging in a dialogue that questions outdated customs and advocates for societal reform. These quotes also serve as a source of inspiration, fueling our desire to contribute to positive change. So, let's read dowry quotes not just for their inherent wisdom, but also for their power to inspire us to become better, more informed individuals.
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