Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
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.
There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.
Here's the advice I give everyone about marriage — is she someone you find interesting?
A man ought not to marry without having studied anatomy, and dissected at least one woman.
Love is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being.
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
It serves for food and raiment.
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.