MARRIAGE PROVERBS
Happy is the wooing that's not long in doing.
Marrying for love is risky, but God smiles on it.
The married man must turn his staff into a stake.
Mary in May, rue for aye.
Marry in Lent, live to repent.
Advent marriage doth deny, but Hilary gives thee liberty: Septuagesima says thee nay, eight days from Easter says you may: Rogation bids thee to contain, but Trinity sets thee free again.
Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
My son's my son till he gets him a wife.
To change the name and not the letter is to change for the worse and not the better.
Wedlock's a padlock.
He who marrieth does well; but he who refrains from marriage doth better.
Needles and pins; needles and pins,
When a man marries, his trouble begins.
Honest men marry soon,
Wise men not at all.
Marry in haste: repent at leisure.
He who repents him not of his marriage, sleeping and waking, in a year and a day, may lawfully go to Dunmow and fetch a gammon of bacon.
It will not always be a honeymoon.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterwards.
Lips, however rosy, need feeding.
Marriage with peace is the world's paradise: with strife, this life's purgatory.
Marry above your match, and you get a good master.
Marry for love and work for silver.
Marriages are made in heaven.
Don't marry for money, but seek where money is.
A man may not wive, and also thrive all in the same year.
Better be half hanged than ill wed.
He that marries for wealth sells his liberty.
He that marries late, marries ill.
He that is needy when he is married shall be rich when he is buried.
Better have an old man to humor than a young rake to break your heart.
Marry your sons when they will; your daughters when you can.
Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.
Two heads are better than one, or why do folks marry?