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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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You're the only boy who ever made me cry, and I decided that if you could make me cry, I must really love you.

Gracie Allen

A man should not love the moon.
An ax should not lose weight in his hand.
His garden should smell of rotting apples
And grow a fair amount of nettles.

Czesław Miłosz King Popeil and Other Poems (1962)

It is no use simply saying, "Little children, love one another," if one set of children can get nearly all the toffee and the others have very little.

David Lloyd George

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.

Christopher Marlowe Hero and Leander (1598)

Erotica is as different from pornography as love is from rape, as dignity is from humiliation, as partnership is from slavery, as pleasure is from pain.

Gloria Steinem

Awards are not as important to me as when I meet a 10-year-old kid who says, "I love Captain Jack Sparrow."

Johnny Depp

The human heart is a cup of love, where some find life and zest, and some drunkenness and death.

Frank Crane Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919)

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn’t wait to leave.

Anatole Broyard

A jealous wife is like a hornets’ nest in your mattress.

Robert Jordan A Crown of Swords (1996)

I love the shock factors and that Michelle is just OK with every aspect of herself, especially the sexual side.

Alyson Hannigan

Something's got a hold on me
It's cheap but it ain' free
Love or somethin like it's got a hold on me.

Kenny Rogers

Now why, if freedom is striven after for love of the I after all — why not choose the I himself as beginning, middle, and end?

Max Stirner The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

Marilynne Robinson Gilead (2004)

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Mignon McLaughlin The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

Hey my love do you believe that we might last a thousand years or more if not for this?

Dave Matthews Crash (1996)

Love is lovelier
The more it shapes its moan in selfish-wise.

Thomas Hardy Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898)

For incensed love breathes quick and dies,
When famished love a-lingering lies.

Thomas Hardy Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898)

Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can’t soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.

Rutherford B. Hayes Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922)

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.

Elijah Wood

Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her is a liberal education.

Richard Steele

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