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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
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
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
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
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person
Mignon McLaughlin
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
I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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
Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
E.E. Cummings
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau
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
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill
Romantic Movie Quotes
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
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
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
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
I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.
The Notebook
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
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
Inspiring Quotes on Love and Marriage
The highest happiness on earth is marriage.
William Lyon Phelps
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength. While loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
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 great marriages are partnerships. It can’t be a great marriage without being a partnership.
Helen Mirren
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leap fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou
True love is never blind, but rather brings an added light.
Phoebe Cary
The highest happiness on earth is marriage.
William Lyon Phelps
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
At the touch of lover everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
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
Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Unknown
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
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
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Paul Sweeney
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
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
Simone Signoret
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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