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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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To remain satisfied and grateful for the pleasure of the Beloved, at the cost of religion and heart is necessarily passionate love, which in Sufi terminology is called faithfulness.

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink,
This many and many a year.

Alexander Brome

It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.

Joseph Heller Catch-22 (1961)

Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit — love.

Morihei Ueshiba

Sense of wrongs forget to treasure—
Brethren, live in perfect love!
In the starry realms above,
God will mete as we may measure.

Friedrich Schiller An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)

We of the Shroud tend to believe in teaching those things we know we can teach, and in affairs of the heart—or gonads—there are no real experts. Love, like zen, cannot be learned, only felt.

Steve Perry The Man Who Never Missed (1985)

Love is of two natures; the love which is tranquil, which is found among both the elect and the common folk, and the love which is rapture, which is found only among the elect. This is road which leads direct to God.

Abu Bakr al-Kalabadhi The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

Montesquieu Lettres Persanes (1721)

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

Clint Eastwood

For winning love we win the risk of losing,
And losing love is as one's life were riven.

Thomas Hardy Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898)

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever
Only, nothing is eternal.

Audre Lorde

Love, we soon come to understand, too often provides the occasion for the misuses and abuse of power.

Francine Prose

What is this thing called love?
This funny thing called love?
Just who can solve this mystery?
Why should it make a fool of me?

Cole Porter

If your wife gives you her heart, you must take it, thankfully, and use it well, and not pull it in pieces, and laugh in her face, because she cannot snatch it away.

Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

Love is not lust. The two (love and lust) are poles apart. Love liberates while lust binds.

Swami Narayanananda A Practical Guide to Samadhi (1957)

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Barbara De Angelis

How shall I do to love? Believe. How shall I do to believe? Love.

Robert Leighton

Love is not a feeling but rather a conscious state.

Richard David Precht

The irony of her story is merely that her love became, in the end, her motive rather than her goal, the doorway rather than the house.

Tanith Lee Volkhavaar (1977)

There is only one person that can be "more than a father", it is your dear mother, whose love for her offspring is unbounded by heaven and earth.

Hyder Bux Jatoi

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