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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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O the people of faith, when you open inner eyes, you will see beauty of the Beloved, radiant everywhere. In every mirror you see Him. In every color of His manifestation you will notice fire of His love.

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

The meaning of life is beauty and love.

Rudy Rucker The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul (2016)

My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. I'm a wretch. But I love, love.

Jack Kerouac Satori in Paris (1966)

I don't feel special … I was just full of energy and loved to learn.

Alicia Witt

I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you." … There is an African saying which is: "Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."

Maya Angelou

All hearts confess the saints elect,
Who, twain in faith, in love agree,
And melt not in an acid sect
The Christian pearl of charity!

John Greenleaf Whittier

It surely is far sweeter and more wise
To water love, than toil to leave anon
A name whose glory-gleam will but advise
Invidious minds to quench it with their own.

Thomas Hardy Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)

No, Barack Obama nor I support redefining from a civil side what constitutes marriage. No, we do not support that.

Joe Biden

As all the perfumes of the vanished day
Rise from the earth still moistened with the dew
So from my chastened soul beneath thy ray
Old love is born anew.

Alfred de Musset

Sail through the sea of sad faces with love.
Love. Love for everyone.
Drift like a little boat on a wave.

Edie Brickell

For me to love you now
Would be the sweetest thing,
'Twould make me sing,
Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.

Donovan Catch The Wind (1965)

I ever give a thought to another, you may well spare it, for those fancies are here and gone like a flash of lightning, while my love for you burns on steadily, and for ever, like the sun.

Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

I fell in love with money before I had any and it’s a myth that the best romances end in heartbreak.

Carole Morin

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Colum McCann Let the Great World Spin (2009)

...variety is necessary in love, so love is to be produced by means of variety.

Vātsyāyana

Marriage is like a good pie spoilt in the baking. Everything is admirable except the result! It is very heavy... very, very heavy!

John Oliver Hobbes The Ambassador (1898)

Love always envelops us: it is we, with our attitude towards it, who transform it into fire or light.

Jean Guitton

Though fools spurn Hymen's gentle powers,
We, who improve his golden hours,
By sweet experience know
That marriage, rightly understood,
Gives to the tender and the good
A paradise below.

Charles Cotton

As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families.

John Adams

But is it true love, in the rectum? That’s what bothers me sometimes.

Samuel Beckett Molloy (1951)

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