Mail Order Bride

Famous quotes containing the words mail, order and/or bride:

“We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.”
—Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948)

“The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it ... a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes—will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.”
—John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)

“The long, laid minute’s bride drifts on
Old in her cruel bed.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)