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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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I love the challenge of getting us out of trouble and when we seem to be dead and buried.

Brady Barends

I would’ve loved my parents to be there, but it was a relief to have finally made the step up after such a long time.

Prenelan Subrayen

[Abortion opponents] love little babies, as long as they're in somebody else's uterus.

Joycelyn Elders

[I]t would, if possible, be best absolutely to prohibit in every State in the Union the marriage of the physically, mentally and morally unfit.

Luther Burbank

So perfumed that
The winds were love-sick.

William Shakespeare

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love,
Help to make earth happy, like the heaven above.
Changed by later compilers to "make this earth an Eden."

Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney

Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Love truth, but pardon error.

Voltaire

Let's not beat around the bush; I love life — that's my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.

Albert Camus The Fall (1956)

I know what love is. There was a happy time when I didn't, but bitter experience has taught me.

W. S. Gilbert Patience (1881)

Some call it magic — the search for the grail. Love is the answer and you know that for sure. Love is a flower, you got to let it — you got to let it grow.

John Lennon

One rational voice is dumb: over a grave
The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved.
Sad is Eros, builder of cities,
And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.

W. H. Auden Another Time (1940)

Just being alive
It can really hurt.
These moments given
Are a gift from time.
Just let us try
To give these moments back
To those we love…

Kate Bush

Not to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love. (Hays translation)

Marcus Aurelius

Fun I love, but too much Fun is of all things the most loathsom. Mirth is better than Fun & Happiness is better than Mirth.

William Blake Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (1799)

Well may storm be on the sky,
And the waters roll on high,
When MANMADIN passes by.
Earth below and heaven above
Well may bend to thee, oh Love!

Letitia Elizabeth Landon The Improvisatrice (1824)

If we seek... nature, then love can be informed by truth instead of being based on ignorance or self-deception.

Carl Sagan The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)

Because of the Shewing I am not good but if I love God the better: and in as much as ye love God the better, it is more to you than to me.

Julian of Norwich

The properties are these: Life, Love, and Light.

Julian of Norwich

I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.

David Lynch McKenna interview (1992)

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