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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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We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

Cicero

The love of pelf increases with the pelf.

Juvenal

If you wish to love, it shall be, by my faith, for their beautiful eyes.

Molière

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved.

Lucan

Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Mammon.

Jesus

Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But - why did you kick me downstairs?

Isaac Bickerstaffe An Expostulation (1789)

We met in secret : mystery is to love
Like perfume to the flower ; the maiden's blush
Looks loveliest when her cheek is pale with fear.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The rugged trees are mingling
Their flowery sprays in love;
The ivy climbs the laurel
To clasp the boughs above.

William Cullen Bryant

For thirty years the Cubans fought alone for their independence; thirty years of struggle that strengthened our love for freedom and independence.

Fidel Castro At the United Nations (1960)

We love drama. We love conflict. We need a devil or we'll create one.

Chuck Palahniuk Haunted (2005)

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.

William Hazlitt The Plain Speaker (1826)

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for the individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Vince Lombardi

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Moore's Life of Lord Byron', The Edinburgh Review (1830)

Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and die in the midst of it.

William Booth Revolution (2005)

He understands not only with his brain but with his heart. And that might be called love. Not quite sure, but maybe that's the key.

Anne Bancroft On her husband Mel Brooks Associated Press interview (1997)

Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.

Guy de Maupassant Boule de Suif (1880)

Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.

Edith Stein Essays on Woman (1996)

“Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived.” It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

F. H. Bradley Aphorisms (1930)

All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.

Eckhart Tolle A New Earth (2005)

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