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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 tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.

Al Sharpton

I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind,
For else it could not be,
That she,
Whom I adore so much, should so slight me,
And cast my love behind.

Ben Jonson The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640)

It's harder to lose the wish to love than the wish to live.[7]

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

The institution of marriage is obsolete

Jane Fonda

Love is almost never simple.

Dejan Stojanovic

The lighthouse of marriage is only one of a host of glimmering lights.

Dorit Rabinyan Close Encounters with Twenty Israeli Writers (2003)

King, tried in fires of woe!
Men hunger for thy grace:
And through the night I go,
Loving thy mournful face. Yet, when the city sleeps;
When all the cries are still:
The stars and heavenly deeps
Work out a perfect will.

Lionel Johnson By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross (1895)

Milo: You have to be serious if you want to be in love.
Andrew: You have to be serious about crime if you want to afford to be in love.

Anthony Shaffer Sleuth (1970)

Children were meant to be gifts. The physical manifestation of love between a man and a woman. And for that love all manner of sacrifice could be borne.

Steven Erikson Memories of Ice (2001)

The only Real Love is the Love for this Infinity (God), which arouses an intense longing to see, know and become one with its Truth (God).

Meher Baba Discourses (1967)

I don't have the guts that Romeo did. [on marriage]

Leonardo DiCaprio

She is young. Have I the right
Even to name her? Child,
It is not love I offer
Your quick limbs, your eyes;
Only the barren homage
Of an old man whom time
Crucifies.

R. S. Thomas Pietá (1966)

I would hate to think I am not an amateur. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often, I'm afraid, the professional hates what he is doing. So, I'd rather be an amateur.

Yehudi Menuhin

I have heard it said that a man caught between his wife and a Wise One often wishes for a dozen old enemies to fight instead. A man caught between a wife and three Wise Ones, and the wife a Wise One herself, must consider trying to slay Sightblinder.

Robert Jordan The Dragon Reborn (1991)

Bomanz sighed. A man couldn’t get five minutes alone. What the hell did he get married for? Why did any man? You spent the rest of your life doing hard time, doing what other people wanted, not what you wanted.

Glen Cook The White Rose (1985)

Love, Lettie thought, it hurts and gladdens us no matter what a woman's age. (p177)

Linda Hogan Mean Spirit (1990)

My soul is occupied,
And all my substance in His service;
Now I guard no flock,
Nor have I any other employment:
My sole occupation is love. ~ 28

John of the Cross

Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think. (p59)

Alice Hoffman Practical Magic (1995)

I ask for a law of Divorce…to prevent the crimes and immoralities now practiced…too often under the name of marriage…I believe in true marriages, and therefore I ask for a law to free men and women from false ones.

Ernestine Rose

Time Is...
Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice,
But for those who love,
Time is Eternity. (Music and Other Poems, 1904)

Henry van Dyke

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