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.
While God waits for his temple to be built of love, men bring stones.
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Another day goes by
Still the children cry
Put a little love in your heart.
We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love.
I made a decision that, rather than looking for Love, I would let Love be me. Let Love be my life.
Whoever does not love has not come to know God, because God is love.
Love is the effacement of the lover's attributes and the establishments of the Beloved's Essence.
Lovers do not reach the height of true love until one says to the other, "O Thou who art I."
Marriage is a duel to the death, which no man of honour should decline.
Perfect love casteth out fear, the Bible says; but, to speak it reverently, so does perfect hate.
In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.