Finding the Right Words for Your Wedding
Compiled by Deah Paulson
What is a wedding, if not a chance to express your deepest feelings for your partner in front of family and friends? Below is a collection of quotes about love and marriage that can help you find just the right words for your wedding day. These quotes are a great resource for programs, toasts, invitations, and more.
QUOTES
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
- Maya Angelou
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
- Honore de Balzac
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
- Milton Berle
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
- Elizabeth Bowen
When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels desert heaven and come and sit in that house and sing for joy.
-The Brahma Sutras
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Two human loves make one divine.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Grow old along with me: the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and the way they express their love.
- Pearl S. Buck
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself."
- Leo F. Buscaglia
When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
- Willa Cather
There are three things that last: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love.
- I Corinthians 13:13
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
- Madame De Stael
Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.
-Charles Dickens
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands and crystal brooks,
With silken lines and silver hooks.
- John Donne
Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor.
For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up.
Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, but how can one be warm alone?
And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart.
- Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
- Zelda Fitzgerald
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."
Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
- Erich Fromm
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
- Erich Fromm
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.
- Robert Frost
Life without love is like a tree
Without blossom and fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore....but let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
- Kahlil Gibran
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.
– Goethe
Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A heart that loves is always young.
- Greek Proverb
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
- Germaine Greer
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
- Hermann Hesse
The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. That action is the testimony of love as the practice of freedom.
- Bell Hooks
He is blessed in love alone,
Who loves for years and loves but one.
- Sir A. Hunt
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
- Zora Neale Hurston
We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Sam Keen
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
- Francois Mauriac
A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.
-Andre Maurois
Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.
- Milton
Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.
- Milton
To live without loving is to not really live.
- Moliere
There is nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.
- Thomas Moore
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
We can only learn to love by loving.
- Iris Murdoch
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do?
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.
- Old English Rhyme
If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
- Ovid
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
- Pablo Picasso
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
For one human being to love another: that is the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test of proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
- Jalal-Uddin Rumi
When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.
- Dr Seuss
He is the half part of a blessed man
Left to be finished by such as she:
And she a fair divided excellence
Whose fulness of perfection lies in him.
- William Shakespeare
I love thee, I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old.
- William Shakespeare
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eye, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
- William Shakespeare
My heart is ever at your service.
-William Shakespeare
Now join hands, and with your hands your hearts.
- William Shakespeare
So dear I love him that with him, All deaths I could endure. Without him, live no life.
- William Shakespeare
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
– Song of Solomon
The first duty of love - is to listen.
- Paul Johannes Tillich
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
- Leo Tolstoy
To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
- Mark Twain
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
Love conquers all things; let us surrender to Love.
- Virgil
Do not marry a man to reform him. That is what reform schools are for.
- Mae West
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.
- Oscar Wilde
Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde
Hearts are not to be had as a gift - hearts are to be earned.
- W.B. Yeats
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
- W. B. Yeats