Keep the eyes open before marriage and half-shut afterward.
~Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)

Marriage is a covered dish. ~Swiss proverb

A young man should not marry yet, an old man not at all. ~Traditional

Marriage is a lottery. ~Traditional

Marry in haste, repent at leisure. ~Traditional

Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you can. ~Traditional

My son's my son till he gets him a wife,
My daughter's my daughter all her life. ~Traditional

In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person. ~Wilbert Donald Gough.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
~Samuel Butler (1835-1902), The Way of All Flesh--Ch. 75.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one a failure. ~Herbert Louis Samuel (1870-1963)

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning a handspring or eating with chopsticks; it looks so easy until you try it.
~Helen Rowland

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
~Pearl S. Buck

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
~Martin Luther

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion to a great rooted tree. Surviving all vicissitudes, and rich with its manifold branches, every leaf holding its own significance.
~Vita Sackville-West

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
~Harlan Miller

If you want praise, die. If you want blame, marry. ~Irish proverb

Suicide

Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
~Dorothy Parker

Fools

Fools' names, like fools' faces,
Are often seen in public places.
~Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)

Revenge is sweet, sweeter than life itself. So say fools.
~Juvenal (60-130? A.D.)

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
~African proverb

Fools and madmen speak the truth. ~Traditional

One fool makes many. ~Traditional

No fool like an old fool. ~Traditional

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them. ~Traditional

$ Money $

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to. ~Yiddish proverb

A great fortune is a great slavery. ~Seneca

A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. ~Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Money is flat and meant to be piled up. ~Scottish proverb

Never marry for money, ye'll borrow it cheaper.
~Scottish proverb

Of money, wit and virtue, believe one-fourth of what you hear. ~Traditional

There is no one who became rich because he worked on a holiday, and no one who became fat because he broke a fast.
~Ethiopian proverb.

The abundance of money ruins youth. ~Traditional

If you have no money, be polite. ~Danish proverb

When your fortune increases, the columns of your house appear to be crooked. ~Armenian proverb

I must say I hate money but it's the lack of it I hate most.
~Katherine Mansfield

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
~H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken (1880-1956)

Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
~Cree prophecy
-submitted by Harlequin

I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. ~Joe Lewis

Poverty

Poverty is not a shame, but being ashamed of it is. ~Traditional

It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who craves more. ~Seneca

Poverty consists in feeling poor.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. ~Sydney Smith (1771-1845)

Many a defect is seen in the poor man. ~Irish proverb