Wedding quotes, sayings and messages

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Wedding quotes provide various perspectives on one of the biggest celebrations in our cultures: 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

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
St. Augustine

Love doesn’t make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Elizabeth Browning

Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.
Chinese Proverb

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Love isn’t blind; it just only sees what matters.
William Curry

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

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
Thomas Fuller

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is Eternity.
Kahil Gibran

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn

Best Wedding Quotes

A good marriage is good for you. That isn’t just a platitude. Mounting research shows that it is the literal truth. When your marriage is healthy, your body and mind are healthier.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendall Holmes

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Martin Luther

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

The best friend will probably get the best spouse because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good Wedding Quotes

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
Boris Pasternak

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.
William Penn

I’ve learned … that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.
Andy Rooney

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.
Diane Sawyer

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Wedding Quotes for Friends

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind
William Shakespeare

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw

My true love hath my heart, and I have his.
Phillip Sydney

It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters.
Mother Teresa

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

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
Author Unknown

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

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
Eddie Cantor

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
K. Chesterton

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie

They say marriages are made in heaven, but so is thunder and lightning.
Clint Eastwood

A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterward.
Benjamin Franklin

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

Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.
Evelyn Hendrickson

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Wedding Quotes for Wife

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

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.
Max Kauffmann

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
Groucho Marx

There’s a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It’s called marriage.
James Holt McGavran

You know there is a name for people who are always wrong all of the time: HUSBANDS!
Bill Mayer

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
Groucho Marx

The longest sentence you can form with two words is “I Do.”
H.L. Mencken

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.
H.L. Mencken

Behind every great man, there is a surprised woman.
Maryon Pearson

Funny Wedding Quotations

When a man opens the car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.
Prince Philip

When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
Helen Rowland

When I finally met Mr. Right, I had no idea that his first name was “Always.”
Rita Rudner

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Rita Rudner

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

The smallest handcuffs in the world are wedding rings.
Unknown

Love is blind. Marriage is an eye-opener.
Unknown

My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God, and I didn’t.
Unknown

Marriage is where a husband loses his bachelor’s degree and a wife gains her master’s degree.
Unknown

When I said “I Do,” I didn’t mean your laundry.
Unknown

Never laugh at your wife’s choices, you’re one of them.
Unknown

Marriage is a relationship where one person is always right and the other is the husband.
Unknown

I promise not to keep score, even if I am totally winning.
Unknown

Three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.
Unknown

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Wedding Quotes for Husband

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

The man who says his wife can’t take a joke forgets that she took him.
Oscar Wilde

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
Henny Youngman

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

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— Mike O’Halloran

An author and writer, Mike is the editor of Greeting Card Poet.