Quotes About Priorities

Never consider marrying anyone based solely on material or financial means. Have a pure heart and motives for being with someone and not a goal to use people for your own selfish reasons. It is better to be alone instead of living a luxurious life and wasting time with the wrong person.

My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And...she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.

Books and marriage go ill together.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer

Before marriage a woman is pensive, after marriage, expensive

They who marry for wealth sell their own liberty

I talk marriage; they talk weddings!

Get married, but never to a man who is home all day

Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

He who marries for love without money has good nights and sorry days.

A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.

At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but just as soon as she gets one, she wants everything else in the world

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

When you finally find what truely matters to you in life! The rest don't matter.

Life is not about extravagance, materialism, or money. It's about loving the people that matter most because you will never know if you will see them tomorrow.

When Jesus isn't our everything, our enough, we pursue every other thing that fills.

I wonder sometimes to see the trouble a man'll take before he gets a pair o' boots, to find out as they're a good fit and won't gall his foot when he comes to wear 'em; but t' same man'll go and get married as careless and off-hand like, as if there weren't the smallest chance of his wife's not suiting him.

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

older children seldom paid much attention to younger ones. The reverse was not true.

Being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred him to remove your brain or your heart.

Every now and then, I felt a teeny-weeny bit of guilt about what I was doing. But I needed the money more than I needed a good conscience.

Grow up, Brett baby, I would share a lot of things with a lot of people, money, clothes, bed and board, even my last crust I'd be willing to share, but one thing I won't share is a man. You'd better believe it.

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.

A starving man won't notice a dirty plate.