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)

“I don’t know but a book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf—at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taking a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel—you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety—& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

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