Know thou that the love of thyself is more hurtful to thee than anything in the world.
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.
Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
“Love cannot be owed,” said the retreating shadow. “It can only be given.”
There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
It was said that I refused to grant any value to the maternal instinct and to love. This was not so.
The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.
Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
If you want to happy for the rest of your life, make a crack-whore your wife.
Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.