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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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Love and Light dwelt together in the highest heaven.

J. E. Casely Hayford Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911)

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

Walter M. Miller Jr. A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)

Some Argentines, without means, do it,
People say, in Boston, even beans do it.
Let's do it, let's fall in love.

Cole Porter Paris (1928)

The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.

Alan Watts The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)

We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.

William James Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

There's no more usual basis of union than a mutual misunderstanding.

Henry James The Portrait of a Lady (1881)

The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.

Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur (c. 1469) (1485)

It is love alone that gives value to all things.

Teresa of Ávila

Marriage is not a sometime thing; it’s whole hawg or you’re not married.

Robert A. Heinlein To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987)

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

Sandra Bernhard

Appetite emotion must first, last and always be adapted to love.

William Moulton Marston The Emotions of Normal People (1928)

The thing nobody ever tells you about marriage is that sometimes it makes you lonelier than being alone ever could.

Michael Ian Black

The love of Allah and His Prophet (Muhammad) is infinitely superior to the love of mortal human beings and of other worldly things.

Meher Ali Shah The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2002)

The gnostic (arif) attains the station of passionate love of God so that he may experience Godhead or His pure Essence.

Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

Dating is not only about sharing who you are as a person — it works best when you find out about the other person.

Cassindy Chao Ancient Wisdom Modern Love (2024)

Literary people of the opposite sex do not really love each other. All they really desire is to read their manuscript aloud to a receptive listener.

Elbert Hubbard A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)

In his opinion, neither justice nor mercy were very closely related to love, let alone being identical with it—otherwise, why have three words instead of one? A metaphor is not a tautology.

James Blish A Style in Treason (1970)

The spiritual state of nearness of God is a sign of true saintliness. This ultimately results in the experience of love and longing for early union.

Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce.

Cokie Roberts

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