1.
Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.
Mahatma Gandhi
Any adolescent, who insists upon dowry for wedlock, belittles his schooling and his homeland and disrespects womanhood.
2.
The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.
Juvenal
The bride price, not the bride, is the focus of appeal.
3.
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
Many individuals accept religion for the same reasons they enter into a marriage, not out of genuine affection but because of a sizable financial settlement.
4.
Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.
Ovid
Conflicts are the inheritance wedded couples give each other.
6.
A great dowry is a bed full of brables.
[A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]
George Herbert
7.
The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.
Horace
8.
I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
[Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]
Plautus
9.
The arrows are from her dowry.
Juvenal
10.
If I do marry, I'll expect a pretty serious dowry. I'm talking goats, pigs, chickens, the works.
Dov Davidoff
11.
Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.
Evelyn Waugh