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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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To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.

Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)

The feeling of love - is a fervent desire of goodness to a man.

Simon Soloveychik Parenting for Everyone (1989)

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

Stendhal

Love without the will to love, relying solely on the force of emotion, can never penetrate to the other person.

Paul Tillich

Belief in the existence of other human beings as such is love.

Simone Weil Gravity and Grace (1972)

An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

John Wesley The Works of the Rev. John Wesley (1830)

To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life.

John Oliver Hobbes

He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

Robert Boyle

Loveliest of lovely things are they,
On earth, that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

William Cullen Bryant Poems (1832)

Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves.

Erich Fromm The Art of Loving (1956)

Want of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection of consciousness.

Rabindranath Tagore

Love means to look at yourself
The way one looks at distant things
For you are only one thing among many.
And whoever sees that way heals his heart,
Without knowing it, from various ills —
A bird and a tree say to him: Friend.

Czesław Miłosz Rescue (1945)

When the soul, then, in any degree possesses the spirit of solitary love, we must not interfere with it.

John of the Cross

Love is made out of ecstasy and wonder;
Love is a poignant and accustomed pain.
It is a burst of Heaven-shaking thunder;
It is a linnet's fluting after rain.

Joyce Kilmer Main Street and Other Poems (1917)

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

Petrarch Notable Thoughts About Women : A Literary Mosaic (1882)

They say that love flies out the window when poverty comes in the door, but people generally get the sense backwards.

Osamu Dazai

Love rests on no foundation.
It is an endless ocean,
with no beginning or end.

Shahram Shiva Hush, Don't Say Anything to God (1999)

Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)

Love is the axis and breath of my life. The art I produce is a byproduct, an excrescence of love, the song I sing, the joy which must explode, the overabundance — that is all!

Anaïs Nin Diary entries (1914)

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