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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.

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Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.

Tom Robbins The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members ... a heart of grace and a soul generated by love.

Coretta Scott King

Because friendship is intercommunication of love, therefore where love is not mutual, there can be no friendship.

Francis de Sales

This is not love, such has only its name and semblance, which loves no thing unless it gains from it.

Bernart de Ventadorn

Love makes man spiritual – and woman material.

José Maria Eça de Queiroz José Matias (1897)

The best definition of love in the world is not worth one kiss from the girl you love.

Machado de Assis

Healthy love is the love that embraces a single, whole woman, including her character and her intelligence.

Italo Svevo La coscienza di Zeno (1923)

To plant the trees that, after we are dead, shall shelter our children, is as natural as to love the shade of those our fathers planted.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.

George Washington Farewell Address (1796)

Let not office puff up any man; for faith and love are all in all, and nothing is preferred before them.

Ignatius of Antioch

A man loves his children because they are weak, helpless and dependent; he loves his wife for similar reasons.

George Fitzhugh Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

All parties need to practise utmost courtesy, always be patient and be tolerant, respect and love among each other.

Abdul Halim of Kedah

I believe marriage to be the best and most important relation that can exist between two human beings.

Bertrand Russell

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Solitude (1870)

Say, is not absence death to those who love?

Alexander Pope Pastorals (1709)

A cheerful life is what the Muses love,
A soaring spirit is their prime delight.

William Wordsworth

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette Break of Day (1928)

If you love our country you are national, and if you love our people you are a socialist.

Oswald Mosley

Same-sex marriage, by any name, civil union or otherwise, is the ultimate smash-mouth in-your-face insult to God Almighty.

Fred Phelps

I would not seek to force people to live up to my ideals but rather love them into doing the thing that is right.

George Albert Smith

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