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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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Domestic happiness, thou only bliss
Of Paradise that has surviv'd the fall!

William Cowper The Task (1785)

Whoever attacks marriage undermines […] the basis of all moral society.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Elective Affinities (1809)

Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage, in the sense of a ceremonial commitment of people to merge their lives, is properly a social ritual reflecting religious or personal conviction, and should not have legal status.

Ellen Willis

Take heede, Camilla, that seeking al the Woode for a streight sticke, you chuse not at the last a crooked staffe.

John Lyly

Giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel.

Paul of Tarsus

And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you,
How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Presence of Love (1807)

Jealousy is a disease; love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often confuses one for the other, or assumes the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. In fact they are almost incompatible; both at once produce unbearable turmoil.

Robert A. Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)

Of course man is useful to man, because his body is a marvellous machine and his mind an organ of wonderful efficiency. But he is a spirit as well, and this spirit is truly known only by love.

Rabindranath Tagore

There are no signs,
There are no stars aligned,
No amulets no charms,
To bring you back to my arms.
There's just this human heart.
That's built with this human fault.
What was your question?
Love is the answer.

St. Vincent Marry Me (2007)

Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.

Albert Schweitzer

Let him who loves, where love success may find,
Spread all his sails before the prosp'rous wind;
But let poor youths who female scorn endure,
And hopeless burn, repair to me for cure.

Ovid

At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

Love is not a feeling; it's a sensation. Drinking water when you're thirsty is a sensation, not a feeling. Being in nature or swimming in the sea is a sensation, not a feeling.

Barry Long Love is not a feeling ~ The Article (1995)

Why did she love him? Curious fool!—be still—
Is human love the growth of human will?

Lord Byron

Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse.
To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing,
As in a foundering ship.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858)

Malebranche would have it that not a soul is left; we humbly think that there still are hearts.

Edmond Rostand Chantecler (1910)

Those who love their neighbor as themselves possess nothing more than their neighbor.

Basil of Caesarea To the Rich (368)

We are all born for love.
It is the principle of existence and its only end.

Benjamin Disraeli Sybil (1845)

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