Wedding Quotes
Wikiquote has no wedding page of its own to draw on, so this one is a blend of the marriage, love and romance pages. Only one quote in the data is filed under weddings directly: Ambrose Bierce’s entry in The Devil’s Dictionary (1911), a definition of the ceremony as a joke about who ends up as nothing. It is funny and it is not for a toast.
For a reading or a speech, the love and romance material is the better bet. Shakespeare and Byron are both here. Look at the source line under each quote before you print it on anything.
I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Already his vast shadow shed upon the unhappy planet a shade soft as a night of love.
Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.
Selfishness and self-love, far from being identical, are actually opposites.
The riddle nature could not prove
Was nothing else but secret love.
To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity — romantic love and gunpowder.
I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.
Love blinds all men, both those who act reasonably and those who act foolishly.
Love is the only thing among men which refuses to be comforted.