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.
The marriage-bed is the most degenerating influence of the social order.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination.
Ah, how I loved them; I know full well I loved them! I led them all to death.
Every day should be distinguished by at least one particular act of love.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
This is Love; to fly heavenward
To rend every instant a hundred veils.
I am the sunlight falling from above,
Yet never severed from the sun I love.
We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
When the intoxication of love has passed, we laugh at the perfections it had discovered.
"I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while!"