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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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We love those who hate our enemies, and if we had no enemies there would be very few people whom we should love.

Bertrand Russell What Desires Are Politically Important? (1950)

The daughters of Major-General Stanley, explaining to him the context of declaration of marriage by the various members of the pirate band.

W. S. Gilbert The Pirates of Penzance (1879)

In vain did Nature's wife command
Divide the waters from the land,
If daring ships and men profane,
Invade th' inviolable main.

Horace Odes (-23)

Dog hates mouse and worships "cat", mouse despises "cat" and hates dog, "cat" hates no one and loves mouse.

E. E. Cummings A Foreword to Krazy (1946)

However the marriage is there severe.

Tacitus

The minister kiss'd the fiddler's wife,
An' could na preach for thinkin' o't.

Robert Burns My Love She's but a Lassie yet (1790)

The while He sits whose name is Love,
And waits, as Noah did, for the dove,
To wit if she would fly to him.

Jean Ingelow Poems (1863)

We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.

Che Guevara Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)

That's the nature of women ... not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Miguel de Cervantes El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)

O ! the heart has all too many tears ;
But none are like those that wait
On the blighted love, the loneliness
Of the young orphan's fate.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon The Golden Violet (1827)

All over the world with thee, my love !
All over the world with thee ;
I care not what sky may low'r above,
Or how dark our path may be.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

And is there care in Heaven? And is there love
In heavenly spirits to these Creatures bace?

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

It isn't necessary to be socialists in order to love Pertini. Whatever he says or does, smells of cleanliness, of loyalty and of sincerity.

Indro Montanelli

He shall appear suddenly and blissfully to all that love Him.

Julian of Norwich

Ever the more clearly that the soul seeth this Blissful Cheer by grace of loving, the more it longeth to see it in fulness.

Julian of Norwich

And the cause why we are travailed with them is for lack in knowing of Love.

Julian of Norwich

"Come on girls! Do you believe in love? Cause I got something to say about it."

Madonna

Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel?

Jim Morrison Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone (1981)

While I loved being first lady, my eight years with that title were the most difficult years of my life.

Nancy Reagan My Turn (1989)

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making it a sin.

Anatole France

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