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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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peace is possible. It needs to be implored from God as his gift, but it also needs to be built day by day with his help, through works of justice and love.

Pope John Paul II

God is pleased with nothing but love … All our works, and all our labours, how grand soever they may be, are nothing in the sight of God.

John of the Cross

A husband who submits to his wife’s yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman’s influence ought to be entirely concealed.

Honoré de Balzac Letters of Two Brides (1841)

[Y]ou have to live without love, learn not to need it, in order to live with it.

Mary McCarthy The Group (1963)

Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all.

Yanni

Narcissism: when one grows too old to believe in one's uniqueness, one falls in love with one's complexity.

John Fowles Daniel Martin (1977)

“Is there anything you need?”
“Need? Aye. Peace of mind. Knowledge of my true destiny. A quiet place where I can be with Cymoril, whom I love.”

Michael Moorcock Elric at the End of Time (1985)

There must be countless forms of love. Which is the form which conquers the rest? I cannot define it. I shall not try.

Michael Moorcock The Eternal Champion (1970)

I loved the theaters, and even though I was hungry, I never spent money for food.

William Saroyan The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)

Here's a chance, I think, for us to kind of remind ourselves, of those things we all commonly enjoy and love and share, try to get back together.

Cat Stevens

When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.

Dave Eggers You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)

[L]ove, in spite of the romantics, is not self-sustaining; it endures only when the lovers love many things together, and not merely each other.

Walter Lippmann A Preface to Morals (1929)

I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to me than that.

Meher Baba

The only Real Sacrifice is that in which, in pursuance of this Love, all things — body, mind, position, welfare and even life itself — are sacrificed.

Meher Baba Discourses (1967)

There can be a new tomorrow
There can be a brighter day
There can be a new tomorrow
Love will find a way

Jackie DeShannon Love Will Find A Way (1968)

Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my Crown, that I have reigned with your loves.

Elizabeth I of England The Golden Speech (1601)

But the kissed lips of Love and fair life everlasting!
Cry out, for one heedeth, who leadeth you home!

William Morris Love is Enough (1872)

Keep my wife's name out [of] your fucking mouth!

Will Smith

Love simply is. … Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.

Paulo Coelho

Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for a time

Eugene O'Neill Long Day's Journey into Night (1955)

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