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.
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
Say what you will, tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
A feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation.
Remember this too: all bad writers are in love with the epic.
If in his study he hath so much care
To hang all old strange things, let his wife beware.
The old land is still the true love, the others are but pleasant infidelities.
The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.
Love, a tacit agreement between two unhappy parties to overestimate each other.
Like blood, like good, and like agen make the happiest marriage.