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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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than of war.

Homer Misattributed

Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel.

Doris Lessing Misattributed

It is strange that men will talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.

Henry David Thoreau Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Henry David Thoreau Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)

All joys do not cause laughter; great pleasures are serious: pleasures of love do not make us laugh.

Voltaire Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Voltaire inscribed on a statue of Love: "Whoever thou art, behold thy master! He rules thee, or has ruled thee, or will rule thee!"

Voltaire Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which tempests emerge when pricked.

Voltaire Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Cease to behave as wolves and dogs that you may experience the Shepherd’s love.

Rumi Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Every moment the voice of Love is coming from left and right
We are bound for heaven; who has a mind to sight-seeing?

Rumi Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Prize not at all life that has passed without love,
Love is the water of life: receive it in thy heart and soul.

Rumi Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.

Wilhelm von Humboldt Attributed Beautiful Thoughts from German and Spanish Authors (1880)

Love is a golden key to let in Christ, and a strong lock to keep out others.

Thomas Brooks Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The desire to please is born in woman before the desire to love.

Ninon de L'Enclos Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Glances are the first billets-doux of love.

Ninon de L'Enclos Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Vows are the false money that pays for the sacrifices of love.

Ninon de L'Enclos Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

Marguerite de Navarre Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Marguerite de Navarre Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Pleasure has its time; so, too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age, attend to thy salvation.

Voltaire Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides Misattributed

I have, besides, a great love for the past. Only what refers to it is eternal and unchangeable like death, and at the same time warm and gladsome like life.

Wilhelm von Humboldt Attributed Beautiful Thoughts from German and Spanish Authors (1880)

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