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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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My wife said she'd never heard me singing in the bath until last week.

Norman Lamont

Love makes us do stupid things.

Chetan Bhagat Revolution 2020 (2011)

You love the bidet more than me.

Kerry Jackson

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love…

Henry Taylor

His wife had held him in her arms as if she could keep death away from him.
He had cried out, "My God, I am a dead man!"

Philip José Farmer To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971)

A wife is not a man's shadow or subordinate, but his other self, his "helper," in a sense which no other creature on earth can be.

Joseph H. Hertz

Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.

Djuna Barnes

In preieres and penaunce putten hem manye,
Al for the love of Oure Lord lyveden ful streyte
In hope to have heveneriche blisse

William Langland

I love the gym, but I still want to look a bit awkward at it. I don't want to look too on top of it, you know?

Marc Jacobs

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

Nicole Krauss The History of Love (2005)

My whole life long, I was ceaselessly in need of love and support, though I let this show as little as possible.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner

They loved him, I think, because, with all his merits, he showed them to be rich: looking at his portraits, they understood at last how rich they really were.

Osbert Sitwell

Love for a person is acceptance of him or her the way he is and the way he is not.

Werner Erhard

Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

Dinah Shore Sy Safransky: Sunbeams: a book of quotations (1990)

There is perfect love in heaven!

Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

Love, ah Love, when your slipknot's drawn,
One can but say, "Farewell, good sense."

Marianne Moore The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)

A boy's hunched body loved out of a stalk
The first song of his happiness, and the song woke
His heart to the darkness and into the sadness of joy.

Galway Kinnell

"Laughter separates us from despair and gives us a chance at love."

Craig Ferguson The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005)

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.

Caspar David Friedrich

Foolish love makes beasts of men:
It once caused Solomon to worship idols,
And Samson to lose his eyes.
That man is lucky who has nothing.

François Villon Le Grand Testament (The Great Testament) (1461)

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