Marriage Costs Quotes

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Dating means doing a lot of fun things you will never do again if you get married. The fun stops with marriage because you're trying to save money for when you split up your property.

If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.

And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar Of the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days, On the whole do you think he would have much to spare If he married a woman with nothing to wear?

I always feel bad for people getting married and spending upwards of a hundred thousand dollars. It just seems so absurd to me.

Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won't be reporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

Many a wedding takes place when a man can't afford to go steady with a girl any longer.

I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain't.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Married men live longer. Yes. And an indoor cat also lives longer. It's a furball with a broken spirit, that can only look out on a world it can never enjoy. But it does technically live longer.

Marriage is an investment which pays dividends if you pay interest.

In Egypt, where my research is focused, I have seen plenty of trouble in and out of the citadel. There are legions of young men who can't afford to get married, because marriage has become a very expensive proposition. They are expected to bear the burden of costs in married life, but they can't find jobs.

In 2009, the 'New York Times' ran an analysis on the cost of being a LGBT couple trying to live as a married couple but without the same protections. Over a lifetime, they estimated a couple would spend as much as $467,562 more, and as little as $41,196, with costs running lower the higher your income.

A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.

Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody money.

In an ideal world, we would charge people a $10,000 success fee when they get married or a $5,000 success fee if they enter into a relationship with someone. Unfortunately, that's a little bit hard to track, although someday maybe we'll get around to that.

Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.

everything associated with weddings cost the same - a fortune.

Gay marriage, I am so against it because if all my gay friends get married, it will cost me a fortune in gifts.

The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow.

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive.