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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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How can I tell the signals and the signs
By which one heart another heart divines?
How can I tell the many thousand ways
By which it keeps the secret it betrays?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?

Alexander Pope Eloisa to Abelard (1717)

Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide,
I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.

Heinrich Heine

Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string?
I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Anatole France The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)

Oh love entertained in stars and doves,/how like a joyous spray you cross my soul!

Julia de Burgos Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)

For, you see, each day I love you more,
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

Rosemonde Gérard

To love one who loves you, to admire one who admires you, to be the idol of your idol! ... It is too much, it exceeds human happiness, it is stealing fire from heaven!

Delphine de Girardin La Croix de Berny (1855)

And in that first flame
Is all the nectar of the kiss.

Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found.

John Forbes Nash Jr.

I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, "I do not love thee."

Martial

Marriage, n. A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

It happens as one sees in cages: the birds which are outside despair of ever getting in, and those within are equally desirous of getting out.

Michel de Montaigne

Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Uxoriousness, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.

Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

My merry, merry, merry roundelay
Concludes with Cupid’s curse:
They that do change old love for new,
Pray gods, they change for worse!

George Peele

We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.

Julian of Norwich

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it. Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Robert Louis Stevenson Aes Triplex (1878)

Divine the Powers that on this trio wait.
Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate.
Love, Work, and Faith — these three alone are great.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox New Thought Pastels (1913)

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