Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
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.
Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
John McCain, if you liked the last eight, you are going to love the next four.
Marriage is one of those things that works best when people don’t think about it too much.
To me a relationship is about loving another human being; their gender is irrelevant.
China is not to be won for Christ by quiet ease-loving men and women.
He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.
Alone, as before, in the universe
Without hope and without love!..
Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.
Despite what Pope Benedict would have us believe, sex without love can be fucking amazing.
Let no man fear to die: We love to sleep all,
And death is but the sounder sleep.
Oh! it is thus with men: to-day forgetfulness, to-morrow love; to-morrow desire, and to-day hate.