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.
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
The worst illness of our time is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved.
Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love — the beauty of his soul knows no limit.
And here you are hurried,
And here you are gone;
And here is the love,
That it's all built upon.
My wife, my child, my music, Nature and the sun; they are my happiness.
The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.
Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.