A tiny, tart couplet about the trouble that starts on a wedding day. It began life as a sewing rhyme, chanted along with needlework, and its brevity makes it easy for very small children to pick up whole.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
Needles and pins, needles and pins,
When a man marries his trouble begins.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition