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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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She's the goddess of all things sweaty and sticky.

Arthur M. Jolly

And she said Losing love is like a window in your heart,
Everybody sees you're blown apart,
Everybody feels the wind blow.

Paul Simon Graceland (1986)

Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls:
Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

I will love thee to the death,
And out beyond into the dream to come.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

To love is to believe, to hope, to know;
'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!

Edmund Waller

Love has power that dispels Death; charm that conquers the enemy.

Kahlil Gibran

O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love,—the first fluttering of its silken wings.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hyperion (1839)

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle (1963)

A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.

Leo Buscaglia A Magazine of People and Possibilities interview (1998)

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

Dinah Craik

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

Paul of Tarsus

Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind,
One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea,
One in many, O broken and blind,
One as the waves are at one with the sea!

Alfred Noyes The Golden Hynde and Other Poems (1914)

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.

Bahá'u'lláh

I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love — nothing else.

Nikos Kazantzakis The Last Temptation of Christ (1955)

In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.

Paulo Coelho Eleven Minutes (2003)

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end: we fancy that we have always possessed what we love, so difficult is it to imagine how we could have lived without it.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël Corinne (1807)

Love is a universal migraine.
A bright stain on the vision
Blotting out reason.

Robert Graves

These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths,
With dear companions now passed out of sight,
Shall not be laid upon their graves.

Lucy Larcom Poems (1869)

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

John the Evangelist

Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others.
Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

Friedrich Schiller

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