Marries

Famous quotes containing the word marries:

“She who marries for love marries well; she who marries for a big house does not.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The first time a woman marries she follows her parents’ wishes, but when she marries again she follows her own.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)