I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.
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.
'Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all.
All-powerful Love! what changes canst thou cause
In human hearts, subjected to thy laws!
I think, am sure, a brother's love exceeds
All the world's loves in its unworldliness.
Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine,
Thou wilt not laugh at poets.
Thy fatal shafts unerring move;
I bow before thine altar, Love!
God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.
Where there is the greatest love, there are always miracles.
Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.
One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.
The opposite of love is fear, but what is all encompassing can have no opposite.