A Quote by Calvin Trillin

At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.

Calvin Trillin

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American Bride Bride And Groom Food Groom Inverse Position Proportion Quality Social Weddings

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Calvin Trillin
American - Novelist
Born: December 5, 1935

Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families.

Lisa Kleypas

The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).

Bryan Q. Miller

Weddings in our society seem designed to reduce the bride and groom to precisely the condition of those who, because they 'lack sufficient use of reason,' are 'incapable of contracting marriage,' according to canon law.

Nancy Mairs

I was able to attend a doggie wedding where the bride wore a custom made gown of taffeta and satin - the quality of the dress was nicer than a lot of the human weddings I've been to.

Beth Ostrosky Stern

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Michael J. Fox

While the foods were being prepared, I watched as men dragged a foot-operated grinding wheel into an open space, and the groom devoted a tense hour to putting a razor's edge to a large, ornate dagger. The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl.

Gregory David Roberts

... the danger of illicit sex influences is, and always has been, in inverse proportion to the degree to which women approximatedto equality with men, in social dignity and in opportunity for public responsibility.

Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

Every bride and groom would do well to remember that in wedding, the we comes before the I.

Evan Esar

There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations. That's the key for me. If I can accept the truth of 'This is what I'm facing - not what can I expect but what I am experiencing now' - then I have all this freedom to do other things.

Michael J. Fox

Weddings have become an expression not just of our desires but also our ambitions, and so more and more the food at weddings is like the food everywhere else, with the ingredients parsed for purity and the preparation praised for ingenuity and the sushi chef standing where the carving table used to be.

Tom Junod

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

E. W. Howe

I would suggest that excellence occurs in direct proportion to necessary suffering, but in inverse proportion to unnecessary suffering or toxic stress. Connection is the best antidote to unnecessary suffering.