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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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A book on radical feminism that did not deal with love would be a political failure. For love, perhaps even more than childbearing, is the pivot of women's oppression today.

Shulamith Firestone The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

The love of God consists in an ardent desire to procure the general welfare, and reason teaches me that there is nothing which contributes more to the general welfare of mankind than the perfection of reason.

Gottfried Leibniz Closing sentence of the Preface to the general science (1677)

The periodic table is the universal catalog of everything you can drop on your foot. There are some things, such as light, love, logic, and time, that are not in the periodic table. But you can't drop any of those things on your foot.

Theodore Gray

When an irrational animal like camel dances at the tune of bell, why don't you, being the best of creation, attain absorption and ecstasy in the love of God, or go into rapture by listening the name of the Beloved.

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

Love consists in embracing acts of obedience and in avoiding acts of disobedience which implies that the devotee of God develops his kinship with God as he merges his will in His will and avoids that which is forbidden by Him.

Sahl al-Tustari The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have — and you don’t have to be a ‘Superman’ to do it.

Christopher Reeve

Marriage has played a critical role in the operation of the criminal justice system, including serving as a defense to crime and as a form of punishment

Melissa Murray

I fell in love with this moon-face: Lavishly I am scattered on the honeymouth
I glanced at the black eye; being black I landed on the eyebrow.

Yunus Emre

You should learn that life, like love, is the only business whose balance sheet must end in the red: you have to give everything without calculating what you get in return.

Paolo Crepet

What he thought of her she knew, what he was capable of saying to her she had felt; yet they were married, for all that, and marriage meant that a woman should cleave to the man with whom, uttering tremendous vows, she had stood at the altar.

Henry James The Portrait of a Lady (1881)

It wasn't about, 'Oh I want to make a film where I get to kiss a 10-year-old boy'. To me it was I wanted to make a film where you're trying to understand love.

Nicole Kidman

What did my fingers do before they held him?
What did my heart do, with its love?

Sylvia Plath Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices (1962)

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
I loved light ever, light in eye and brain —
No tapers mirrored in long palace floors,
Nor dedicated depths of silent aisles,
But just the common dusty wind-blown day
That roofs earth's millions.

Edith Wharton Vesalius in Zante (1564)

In love affairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child — ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the unfriendly gulf of custom, to melt the ice of cold reserve, and overthrow the separating walls of dread formality and pride.

Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

Somewhere In Time is the story of a love which transcends time, What Dreams May Come is the story of a love which transcends death. ... I feel that they represent the best writing I have done in the novel form.

Richard Matheson

Love is just another means of manipulation. We can use that emotion like we use hatred and fear.

John Twelve Hawks Fourth Realm Trilogy (2005)

I wanted the basic needs of human existence—satiation of hunger, good health, love—to take on the shapes of small fruits we could plant and harvest. But who would be the plantation owners, and who the harvesters?

Jaroslav Kalfař Spaceman of Bohemia (2017)

Thy love hath taken me from me; Thou, Thou art needed by me.
Day and night do I burn; Thou, Thou art needed by me.
Were they to slay me, let them winnow my ashes into the heavens.
There let my dust cry, "Thou, Thou art needed by me."

Yunus Emre

If we only have love
Then tomorrow will dawn
And the days of our years
Will rise on that morn.

Rod McKuen If We Only Have Love (1968)

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

George Eliot Adam Bede (1859)

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