It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
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.
'Tis my maxim, he's a fool that marries; but he's a greater that does not marry a fool.
Body and soul, like peevish man and wife,
United jar, and yet are loth to part.
Remember, it is as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.
The world well tried—the sweetest thing in life
Is the unclouded welcome of a wife.
There have been women I have loved ... A lot, as discreetly as possible.
Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time,
And make two lovers happy.
Love in a hut, with water and a crust,
Is — Love, forgive us! — cinders, ashes, dust.