...a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth ...
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.
Byron says that it is easier to die for the woman one loves than to live with her.
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
"When the sense of distinction and separation is absent, you may call it love."
If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.