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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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He is as loving and tender as a child, but strong and sturdy as a rock.

Juan Ramón Jiménez ‪Platero and I‬ (1917)

Children understand very well that in each woman, in each man, in each child, there is capacity of waking up, of understanding, and of loving.

Thích Nhất Hạnh Being Peace (2005)

How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.

Malcolm Lowry Under the Volcano (1947)

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

Eldridge Cleaver Soul on Ice (1968)

You are an eternal being of love
you are the light of the world.

Mike Scott Universal Hall (2003)

Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.

James Spader

Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.

Jacques Ellul Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1962)

There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.

Joseph Alleine Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The disinterested love of truth which culture fosters is akin to the unselfishness which is a characteristic of the good.

John Lancaster Spalding Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)

Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting,
The parting hour is come!
And fast thy soul is fleeting
To seek its starry home.

Pierre-Jean de Béranger L'Adieu; free translation; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

Behind their fluffy rhetoric about free trade and free markets lurks a hostility toward freedom for ordinary people — and a love affair with police and prisons.

David McNally Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)

Egalitarianism seems to be rooted more in the hatred of domination than in the love of equality per se.

Jonathan Haidt The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012)

"There is often greater martyrdom to live for the love of, whether man or an ideal, than to die" is a motto of the Mahatmas.

Helena Blavatsky

Affections are more solid and lasting among spirits than among men, because they are not subordinated to the caprices of material interests and self-love.

Allan Kardec

I got an Irish passport the other day. I love it. It's the best thing in my pocket.

Sam Neill

Kama is also learnt from the Kama Sutra (aphorisms on [[love) and from the practice of citizens.

Vātsyāyana

The process of choosing somebody to have sex with, which used to be known as falling in love, is mysterious, cerebral, and highly selective.

Matt Ridley The Red Queen (1993)

The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

James Legge

When things go sideways in this unhappy world, nobody cries out in the dead of night: “For the love of God, somebody call the Dutch!”

Kevin D. Williamson

A sense of identity is the gift of love, and only love can give it.

Elizabeth Goudge The Dean's Watch (1960)

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