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Wedding quotes provide various perspectives on one of the biggest celebrations in our culture: weddings. Review this collection below and see if you find something that suits your purpose. The insights on married life make for an interesting read.
Beautiful Wedding Quotes
1.) Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.
St. Augustine
2.) Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Elizabeth Browning
3.) Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.
Chinese Proverb
4.) Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is a success.
Unknown
5.) Love isn’t blind; it just only sees what matters.
William Curry
6.) The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love, the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.
Benjamin Franklin
7.) If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
Thomas Fuller
8.) Marriage is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is Eternity.
Kahil Gibran
9.) The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn
10.) Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendall Holmes
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11.) Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Martin Luther
12.) There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
Martin Luther
13.) A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre Maurois
14.) The best friend will probably get the best spouse because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.
Friedrich Nietzsche
15.) My true love hath my heart, and I have his.
Phillip Sydney
16.) It is not how much you do but how much Love you put into the doing that matters.
Mother Teresa
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17.) Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
Boris Pasternak
18.) In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.
William Penn
19.) I’ve learned … that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.
Andy Rooney
20.) A good marriage is a contest of generosity.
Diane Sawyer
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Wedding Quotes for Friends
21.) Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind
William Shakespeare
22.) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw
23.) I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious – your heart, your soul.
Leo Tolstoy
24.) Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
25.) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
26.) Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
Author Unknown
27.) A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it’s you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart.
Author Unknown
Funny Wedding Quotes
28.) A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
Eddie Cantor
29.) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
K. Chesterton
30.) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie
31.) They say marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.
Clint Eastwood
32.) A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
33.) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.
Benjamin Franklin
34.) It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Robert Frost
35.) Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first, the ring, and then you wake up.
Evelyn Hendrickson
Wedding Quotes for Bride
36.) I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
37.) I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then, it was too late.
Max Kauffmann
38.) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
Groucho Marx
39.) There’s a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It’s called marriage.
James Holt McGavran
40.) You know there is a name for people who are always wrong all of the time: Husbands!
Bill Mayer
41.) 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
42.) The longest sentence you can form with two words is “I Do.”
H.L. Mencken
43.) Behind every great man, there is a surprised woman.
Maryon Pearson
Funny Marriage Quotes
44.) When a man opens the car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.
Prince Philip
45.) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
Helen Rowland
46.) When I finally met Mr. Right, I had no idea that his first name was “Always.”
Rita Rudner
47.) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Rita Rudner
48.) Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
Barbra Streisand
49.) The smallest handcuffs in the world are wedding rings.
Unknown
50.) Love is blind. Marriage is an eye-opener.
Unknown
51.) My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God, and I didn’t.
Unknown
52.) Marriage is where a husband loses his bachelor’s degree, and a wife gains her master’s degree.
Unknown
53.) When I said “I Do,” I didn’t mean your laundry.
Unknown
54.) Never laugh at your wife’s choices; you’re one of them.
Unknown
55.) Marriage is a relationship where one person is always right, and the other is the husband.
Unknown
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56.) I promise not to keep score, even if I am totally winning.
Unknown
57.) The three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.
Unknown
58.) I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner
59.) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t, they’d be married too.
H.L. Mencken
60.) Marriage is like a game of chess, except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
Jerry Seinfeld
Wedding Quotes for Groom
61.) One advantage of marriage is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
Judith Viorst
62.) The man who says his wife can’t take a joke forgets that she took him.
Oscar Wilde
63.) The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
Henny Youngman
64.) Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music, and dancing. She goes Tuesdays; I go Fridays.
Henny Youngman
65.) The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
Alfred Hitchcock
66.) Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
67.) Being a good husband is like being a stand-up comic. You need 10 years before you can call yourself a beginner.
Jerry Seinfeld
68.) The groom always smiles proudly because he’s convinced he’s accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she’s been able to convince him of it.
Judith McNaught
Romantic Wedding Quotes
69.) A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person
Mignon McLaughlin
70.) 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
71.) I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.
J. R. R. Tolkien
72.) 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
73.) Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
E.E. Cummings
74.) There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau
75.) 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
76.) My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill
Romantic Movie Quotes
77.) 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
78.) 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
79.) Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be, and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.
Nights in Rodanthe
80.) 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, The History of Love
81.) I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.
The Notebook
82.) 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
83.) You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
Words Of Wisdom
84.) A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
Robert Quillen
85.) Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.
Chris Rock
86.) Why do married people live longer than single people? I think it’s because married people make a special effort to live longer than their partner – just so they can have the last word.
Janet Periat
87.) Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.
Will Ferrell
Inspiring Quotes on Love and Marriage
88.) The highest happiness on earth is marriage.
William Lyon Phelps
89.) Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength. While loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
90.) 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
91.) The great marriages are partnerships. It can’t be a great marriage without being a partnership.
Helen Mirren
92.) Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, and penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou
93.) True love is never blind but rather brings an added light.
Phoebe Cary
94.) The highest happiness on earth is marriage.
William Lyon Phelps
95.) What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life–to strengthen 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
96.) At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
97.) A great marriage is not when the perfect couple comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
Dave Meurer
Inspirational Quotes
98.) Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Unknown
99.) 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
100.) 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
101.) A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Paul Sweeney
102.) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes for the Happy Couple
103.) 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
104.) Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Simone Signoret
105.) For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Rosemonde Gerard
106.) I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.
Leo Christopher
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By Mike O’Halloran
An author and writer, Mike is the editor of Greeting Card Poet.
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