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Marriage is probably the most important relationship in a person’s life. A wedding is the coming together of not just two people, but two families and their friends and relatives. Besides its social importance, marriage has its natural and universal importance.
Philosophers and great men and women have always said great things about the institution of marriage. Weddings are associated with true love, best friends, and longevity in this lasting relationship.
Here are some of the best wedding quotes that you can share with your to-be-spouse or friend who is about to get married to make them feel special!
Wedding Quotes and Sayings
Marriage is an authentic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity–everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.
Sir Thomas Moore
To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.
Criss Jami
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
Simone Signoret
Best Wedding Quotes
A marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s the way you love your partner every day.
Barbara De Angelis
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
Socrates
May love and laughter light your days, and warm your heart and home.
Irish Proverb
It is such happiness when good people get together – and they always do.
Jane Austen
Marriage is love personified.
Phoenix Flame
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So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s going to be really hard; we’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, every day. You and me… every day.
Nicholas Sparks
If I get married, I want to be very married.
Audrey Hepburn
Marriage is just a fancy word for adopting an overgrown male child who cannot be handled by his parents anymore.
Unknown
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that’s a real treat.
Joanne Woodward
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Wedding Sayings
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
Lord Byron
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
I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner
Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.
Emerson
Happiness [is] only real when shared
Jon Krakauer
Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
I Corinthians 13:7
When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
André Maurois
A great marriage is not when the perfect couple comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
Dave Meurer
Good Wedding Quotes
Marriage–a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.
Beverly Nichols
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
Robert Quillen
Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.
Erma Bombeck
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Honore de Balzac
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
Joseph Barth
Some relationships are like Tom and Jerry, they argue and disagree all the time, but they still can’t live without each other.
Unknown
Weddings remind us that our lives have meaning and that love is the strongest bond, the happiest joy, and the loveliest healing we can ever experience.
Daphne Rose Kingma
Marriage is not a simple love affair, it’s an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.
Joseph Campbell
This relationship is the vessel wherein is nurtured the life force of both individuals, whereby they create the future of the human race in body and thought.
L. Ron Hubbard
To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
John Lennon
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Marriage Quotations
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Homer
Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
Millicent Carey McIntosh
You make me happier than I ever thought I could be and if you let me I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you feel the same way.
Chandler
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.
Jennifer Smith
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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
Anne Taylor Fleming
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.
Franz Joseph von Munch-Bellinghausen
Marriage is getting to have a sleepover with your best friend, every single night of the week.
Christie Cook
They gave each other a smile with a future in it.
Ring Lardner
The most important four words for a successful marriage: I’ll do the dishes.
Unknown
Wedding Bell Blues Sayings
- Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
Oscar Wilde - Marriage is not just spiritual communion; it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Dr. Joyce Brothers - The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.
Robert C Dodds - You don’t marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as a result of being married to you.
Richard Needham - What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo Tolstoy - The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Sir Harold George Nicolson
Inspirational Wedding Quotes
May joy and peace surround you, contentment latch your door. And happiness be with you now—and bless you evermore.
Irish Proverb
No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is not saying.
Unknown
Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.
Tom Mullen
May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light. May good luck pursue you each morning and night.
Irish Proverb
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make – not just on your wedding day, but over and over again – and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
Barbara De Angelis
Happy Wife, Happy Life
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Franz Schubert
A good husband makes a good wife.
John Florio
When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.
Helen Gahagan
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Paul Sweeney
Marriage Advice
The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. A mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.
Fawn Weaver
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marriages, like a garden, take time to grow. But the harvest is rich unto those who patiently and tenderly care for the ground.
Darlene Schacht
Heartfelt Wedding Quotes
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
Martin Luther
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre Maurois
Marriages are like fingerprints; each one is different and each one is beautiful.
Maggie Reyes
The difference between an ordinary marriage and an extraordinary marriage is in giving just a little extra every day, as often as possible, for as long as we both shall live.
Fawn Weaver
What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life–to strength each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?
George Eliot
Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Sweet Quotes From Movies
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
When Harry Met Sally
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more. That plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.
William Goldman, The Princess Bride
I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever. I promise to never forget that this is a once in a lifetime love.
The Vow
It feels like how love should be. Floating through a dark blue sky.
Notting Hill
I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Beautiful Quotes
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength. While loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
Maya Angelou
The older you get the more you realize that it isn’t about the material things, or pride or ego. It’s about our hearts and who they beat for.
J. Sterling
The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.
William Lyon Phelps
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
Elizabeth Gilbert
When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.
Arrigo Boito
I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.
Leo Christopher
Romantic Quotes
I love your feet because they have wandered over the earth and through the wind and water until they brought you to me.
Pablo Neruda
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Unknown
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou
The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.
William Lyon Phelps
Marriages, like a garden, take time to grow. But the harvest is rich unto those who patiently and tenderly care for the ground.
Darlene Schacht
One True Love
Two souls with but a single thought; two hearts that beat as one.
John Keats
True love is never blind, but rather brings an added light.
Phoebe Cary
Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
E.E. Cummings
Once upon a time, there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
Nicole Krauss
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my love to marry me.
Winston Churchill
For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Rosemonde Gerard
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
By Liz Olson
Liz is a poet and writer based in Minneapolis.
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