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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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There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

Norman Mailer

The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity — love. And the story of love is not important — what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Helen Hayes

God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

Simone Weil Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.

Eden ahbez Joe Romersa (1992)

When we make our own calculations, we need so many numbers and factors that any mistake is possible. The Lord's calculation boils down to love.

Adrienne von Speyr Lumina and New Lumina (1969)

An ideal teacher for me is someone who never lacks love, even when they have to be strict. I find it heartwarming to think of teachers being able to carefully watch over each individual (student).

Yui Aragaki Yui Aragaki (2015)

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

George Santayana The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905)

I love you and, because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Pietro Aretino

Sometimes, a wife must do what her husband cannot.

Robert Jordan The Gathering Storm (2009)

There shall he love when genial morn appears,
Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears.

Thomas Campbell The Pleasures of Hope (1799)

Love is a God, who cooperates in securing the safety of the city.

Zeno of Citium

The ones we choose to love become our anchor
when the hawser of the blood-tie's hacked, or frays.

Tony Harrison

Our human nature likes more to destroy than to build, more to cry than to smile, and more to correct the world than to love and embrace the world.

Sri Chinmoy Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)

Marriage is a diner that begins with dessert.

Jules Sandeau

“I—ah—have some idea.”
“You argue?”
“I propose.”
“Marriage?”
“No. Another form of dialectical antagonism.”

Algis Budrys Michaelmas (1977)

There is an afterlife to love
and there is love in the afterlife.

Sheri-D Wilson Goddess Gone Fishing for a Map of the Universe (2012)

The Feast of Birds is dedicated to Avalei, the Goddess of Love and Death, of whom my master had said: “Not all that is ancient is worthy of praise.”

Sofia Samatar A Stranger in Olondria (2013)

The Beloved created your being from His own love so that He could see His own beauty in the mirror of your heart and make you privy of His mysteries.

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

What western media describe as "romance", is not true love. It’s a fleeting sexual excitement with no sense of responsibility involved.

Ali Khamenei

Without my love, I have no taste for wine.
Without my love, what use this life of mine?

Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah

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