To make a happy fireside clime
To weans and wife,—
That is the true pathos and sublime
Of human life.
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.
Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.
If yet I have not all thy love,
Dear, I shall never have it all.
Now thou hast loved me one whole day,
To-morrow when thou leavest, what wilt thou say?
Refinement is a sign of a deficient vitality, in art, in love, and in everything.
Love, the most generous passion of the mind
The softest refuge innocence can find.