Quotes by Dowry It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large. Decimius Magnus Ausonius dowry misery happens If I do marry, I'll expect a pretty serious dowry. I'm talking goats, pigs, chickens, the works. Dov Davidoff dowry pigs talking Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully. Evelyn Waugh dowry wine men A great dowry is a bed full of brables. George Herbert dowry bed 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 dowry embrace people The great virtue of parents is a great dowry. Horace dowry family parent The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction. Juvenal dowry objects wife The arrows are from her dowry. Juvenal dowry arrows Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood. Mahatma Gandhi dowry women country Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another. Ovid dowry marriage society I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. Plautus dowry wife taken