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)

    “Power corrupts ... when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before. The will to power ... far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one.”
    —Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

    “Of what is real I say,
    Is it the old, the roseate parent or
    The bride come jingling, kissed and cupped, or else
    The spirit and all ensigns of the self?”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)