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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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Be generous! Give to those whom you love; give to those who love you; give to the fortunate; give to the unfortunate; yes — give especially to those to whom you don’t want to give.

W. Clement Stone

Women are hardly ever known in their true light, though they may love men, or become indifferent towards them, may give them delight, or abandon them, or may extract from them all the wealth that they possess.

Vātsyāyana

For each new morning let there be flow of love. Let there be light of happiness in every direction.

Amit Ray Walking the Path of Compassion (2015)

Love is almost the only passion that the good man may avow. It is the only one which accords with delicacy.

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot Posthumous Manuscripts (1878)

If the Sun is the source of flow in the economy of nature, what is the "Sun" of a human gift economy, the source that constantly replenishes the flow of gifts? Maybe it is love.

Robin Wall Kimmerer The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (2024)

Oh, who can sound the human breast?
And this strange truth must be confessed;
That city do I love the best
Wherein my heart was heaviest!

Amy Levy A London Plane-tree, and Other Verse (1889)

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return . . .

George Eliot Daniel Deronda (1876)

So I fell in love with a rich attorney's
Elderly, ugly daughter.

W. S. Gilbert Trial by Jury (1875)

A world without love would be no world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Roman Elegies (1789)

I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar. Like the word bear and the word bare. You can get in trouble mistaking one for the other.

Harlan Ellison Shatterday (1980)

Wear your love like heaven.

Donovan A Gift from a Flower to a Garden (1967)

God loves without limit and this puts a loving person most securely at peace.

John Ruysbroeck The Spiritual Espousals (1340)

I asked Rajiv to be frank. I had no love for office or power. I could walk out any time. I was like a sojourner in an inn.

Zail Singh

The people who Bitch about life the most are the people who secretly love bitching

Frances Bean Cobain

"Marriage is a philosophy that should be entered without many philosophize."

Juraj Jurjević Zimzelene starine (1983)

Love, just like passion, is anticipation, unlimited trust, wonderful madness, a living and disruptive fire.

Paolo Crepet

That ghostly figure, the ideal union of what is best in both personalities, should be constantly regarded as the ruler of the marriage—and, indeed, as something as close to divine as might be practically approached by fallible individuals.

Jordan Peterson Beyond Order (2021)

For a man filled with a great, true and unselfish love, even if it be on one side only, there open horizons and possibilities and paths which are closed and unknown to so many clever, ambitious and selfish men.

Ivo Andrić The Bridge on the Drina (1945)

Without your love
It's a honky-tonk parade
Without your love
It's a melody played in a penny arcade. It's a Barnum and Bailey world
Just as phony as it can be
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me.

Yip Harburg It's Only a Paper Moon (1933)

When I was a lion, panther was my prey;
I caught everything which I hunted.
When I came to embrace tightly love for you,
A lame fox drove me from den.

Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

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