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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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There is no gift more great than love.

James Branch Cabell The Silver Stallion (1926)

Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.

Ayn Rand Apollo and Dionysus (1969)

My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.

Rabindranath Tagore The Gardener (1915)

Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of judgment.

Wendell Berry What Are People For? (1990)

I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.

Wendell Berry Another Turn of the Crank (1996)

Drink, my jolly lads, drink with discerning,
Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning;
Never was owl more blind than a lover,
Drink and be merry, lads, half seas over.

Dinah Craik Thirty Years, Being Poems New and Old (1880)

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.

Meher Baba Lord Meher (1986)

'T is just like a summer bird-cage in a garden,—the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.

John Webster The White Devil (1612)

Love comes unseen,—we only see it go.

Henry Austin Dobson Vignettes in Rhyme and Vers de Societé (1873)

Is the world so unbearable? No! What we need is only a little more love for the world.

Sri Chinmoy Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)

Wedded love is founded on esteem.

Elijah Fenton Mariamne: A Tragedy (1723)

Love is the last of the virtues to be born in the heart, but it is the first in value.

Marcus Eremita

When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust — but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.

Leo Tolstoy

Venus, thy eternal sway
All the race of men obey.

Euripides

She knew she was by him beloved,—she knew
For quickly comes such knowledge, that his heart
Was darken'd with her shadow.

Lord Byron The Dream (1816)

Women know no perfect love:
Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong;
Man clings because the being whom he loves
Is weak and needs him.

George Eliot The Spanish Gypsy (1868)

I love thee, as the good love heaven.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Spanish Student (1843)

From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love
To long for, pureness to desire, a mount
Of consecration it were good to scale.

Jean Ingelow

When love is at its best, one loves
So much that he cannot forget.

Helen Hunt Jackson

To be wise and eke to love,
Is granted scarce to gods above.

Edmund Spenser

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