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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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Love is to be reinvented, that is clear.

Arthur Rimbaud Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) (1873)

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rita Rudner

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.

Orson Scott Card Songmaster (1979)

I dreamt that my hair was kempt.
Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.

Ogden Nash

Death must come before rebirth. But what must die? False confidence in one’s own knowledge, self-love and egoism. Our egoism must be broken.

G. I. Gurdjieff All and Everything: Views from the Real World (1973)

They were unbalanced, emotional, hysterical, bigoted, hateful, loving, and insane.

Robert G. Ingersoll Why I Am an Agnostic (1896)

What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?

John Adams Inaugural Address (1797)

May everyone live,
And may everyone die.
Hello, my love,
And my love, Goodbye.

Leonard Cohen Ten New Songs (2001)

We pardon to the extent that we love.

François de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665)

A manly form at her side she saw,
And joy was duty and love was law.
Then she took up her burden of life again,
Saying only, "It might have been".

John Greenleaf Whittier Maud Muller (1856)

The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide.

Subhash Kak The Prajna Sutra (2007)

I thought I'd be ragged for writing a puffy piece. My wife said people are going to think you're hunting for a job in the Bush campaign.

Tucker Carlson

Unfortunately her portrait will cure no one of the addiction to loving sweetly smiling angels with dreamy looks, innocent faces, and a strong-box for a heart.

Honoré de Balzac

The number one fact about the news media is they love fights. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.

Newt Gingrich

Others boast of their love for God. My boast is that I did not love God; it was He who loved me and sought me out and forced me to belong to Him.

Sri Aurobindo Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)

The living blind and seeing Dead together lie
As if in love... There was no more hating then,
And no more love; Gone is the heart of Man.

Edith Sitwell The Canticle of the Rose (1949)

The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions — hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity — also ceased to manifest themselves.

Paulo Coelho Veronika Decides to Die (1998)

Scientific collaborations are akin to marriages, or temporary marriages. Their breakup is not unlike a divorce and rarely avoids acrimony.

Peter Freund

I'm not loved by Hillary Clinton... and I don't love her either.

Hugo Chávez

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. People might not return it; or worse, they might.

Mignon McLaughlin The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

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