Let moderation on thy passions wait;
Who loves too much, too much the lov'd will hate.
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.
To set the cause above renown,
To love the game above the prize.
To love and be beloved, this is the good,
Which for most sovereign all the world will prove.
But beauty has wings, and too hastily flies,
And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.
Ah, better to love in the lowliest cot
Than pine in a palace alone.
If you can't love two people at once, there's something wrong with you.
He rather hated the ruling few than loved the suffering many.
A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.