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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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They do not speak of boundless skies,
of passing loves like silver clouds.
They speak of cheerless towns, unwound:
on hazy moors of muffled music.

Fausto Cercignani Examples of self-translation (2004)

I am drunk in your love, Lala;
give me the cup to drink from your lips.
I am drunk with your love,
and that love gives me excitement.

Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah

I don’t think I’ve been guilty of threatening, slandering of disparaging any population group. These [statements] are all about what the Bible teaches about marriage and sexuality.

Päivi Räsänen

You can't bomb for a humane reason. What we should do is just Mother Teresa them to death with love. It's that old hippie nonsense but it's still the best stuff there is.

Ken Kesey Trip of a Lifetime (1999)

May An, Enlil and Enki, who have loved Ibbi-Suen from the womb, look upon him approvingly.

Ishbi-Erra

For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And love itself have rest.

Lord Byron So, We'll Go No More A-Roving (1817)

I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

J. D. Salinger Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov BBC obituary (2004)

Rust rust rust
in the engines of love and time

Leonard Cohen

Love is the only human emotion that cannot be controlled.

Rush Limbaugh

Love, like the yellow daffodil, is Lord of all I know.

Sydney Carter Julian of Norwich (1983)

A child's spirit is like a child, you cannot catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

Arthur Miller The Crucible (1953)

Is not love itself a form of a spell, where one is loved and the other loves, and the one who loves is compelled to do the other’s bidding? Of course. It is the same thing.

Roger Zelazny Jack of Shadows (1971)

I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world; that it alone can overcome hate; that right can and will triumph over might.

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

Ebriel regarded his adversary. His eyes grew peculiarly lambent, as though he had come to love her. Of course, they were sworn foes; perhaps he had.

Tanith Lee Delirium's Mistress (1986)

I remembered what Jamie had said, that love doesn't solve anything. Maybe. But it helps.

S. E. Hinton Tex (1982)

She’d been happier with him than she had ever thought imaginable, but only now she understood it wasn’t because their DNA had dictated it, but because she’d opened herself up to the concept of love.

John Marrs The One (2017)

There is a critical moment in the calendar of love, and its power is infinite.

Nikolay Karamzin

It is love that acts like a disease, but it works in reverse: it is good when it infects, it kills when it heals.

Paolo Crepet

Every culture has a need for the divine, more like a need for love.

Giulio Giorello

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