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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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All true morality, inward and outward, is comprehended in love, for love is the foundation of all the commandments.

Meister Eckhart Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)

The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The Evolution of Chastity (1934)

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.

James Branch Cabell The Cream of the Jest (1917)

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

Rudyard Kipling Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)

What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the laughter of children, to the rainbow, and to the sorrow of man. Under every stone and leaf, that which is eternal exists.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

Maya Angelou A Brave and Startling Truth (1995)

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Kahlil Gibran The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994)

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Mother Teresa

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love....The smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

Mother Teresa Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (2007)

Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds (1916)

The loves and hours of the life of a man,
They are swift and sad, being born of the sea.

Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems and Ballads: First Series (1866)

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.

George MacDonald The Marquis of Lossie (1877)

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

U Thant

Life is ever lord of Death
And Love can never lose its own.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.

Shulamith Firestone The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

Love is a boy by poets styl'd;
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

Samuel Butler Part II (1664)

There is nothing better or more necessary than love.

John of the Cross

Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. How terrible is the one fact of beauty!

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. A Mortal Antipathy (1885)

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