Mail Order Bride

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

“The mail from Tunis, probably,
An easy Morning’s Ride—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

“From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a boy’s will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)