Wedding & Marriage Quotes
One of life’s milestones, a wedding conjures up the best that two people can mean for each other. While the wedding event itself is filled with all things white and hopeful, the subsequent marriage, while hopefully filled with love, loyalty and understanding will face challenges for which many people over the ages have had something to say. The following collection of quotes, both wise and comical, relate to weddings and marriage.
“And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and twain shall be one flesh. Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” Matthew 19:4-6 “God, the best maker of all marriages, combine your hearts in one.” Shakespeare “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 “The first bond of society is marriage.” Cicero “Love begins with the desire for union.” Plato “The only thing that can hallow marriage is love, and the only genuine marriage is that which is hallowed by love.” Leo Tolstoy “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” Germaine Greer “Marriage must exemplify friendship’s highest ideal.” Margaret Sanger “Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both.” Millicent Carey McIntosh “A good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.” Friedrich Nietzsche “Of love that says Not mine and thine, But ours, for ours Is thine and mine.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “You see, when friends become lovers and then husbands and wives, well, two is definitely better than one, to themselves and to everyone they touch.” Lee Baldwin “Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.” Robert Louis Stevenson “All I know for sure from seven years of marriage so far…is this: a good marriage is worth more than rubies, flowers, flattery and French perfume; a true, loving husband or wife is a passionate gift from life.” Anna Maria Dell’oso “You are the only being whom I can love absolutely with my complete self, with my flesh and mind and heart. You are my mate, my perfect partner, and I am yours.” Iris Murdoch “The highest happiness on earth is marriage.” William Lyon Phelps “We should marry to please ourselves, not other people.” Isaac Bickerstaffe “Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.” Chinese Proverb “There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.” Menander “Not caged, my bird, my shy, sweet bird, But nested—nested!” Hubberton Lulham “A marriage between mature people is not an escape but a commitment shared by two people that becomes a part of their commitment to themselves and society.” Betty Friedman “Bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.” Genesis 2:23 “The bridal wind is blowing For love is at his noon; And soon will your true love be with you, Soon, O soon.” James Joyce “A wedding, a church wedding, it’s what every girl dreams of.” Joan Bennett “You have become mine forever. Yes, we have become partners. I have become yours.” Hindu Marriage Poem “Nothing happens without a cause. The union of this man and woman has not come about accidentally but is the foreordained result of many past lives. This tie can therefore not be broken or dissolved.” Buddhist Marriage Homily “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 “Rituals are important. Nowadays it’s not hip to be married. I’m not interested in being hip.” John Lennon “Marriage is the longing for the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.” Mrs. Patrick Campbell “Marriage is a sea of dreams.” Frank Crane “A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.” A.P. Stanley “Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, thou there, yet both but one.” Anne Bradstreet “Any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance, however passionate.” W.H. Auden “Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood they are on the same side.” Zig Ziglar “The test of a happily married—and wise woman—is whether she can say, `I love you’ far oftener than she asks `do you love me?’” Dorothy Dayton “How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! How much better is thy love than wine!” Song of Solomon 4:10 “Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.” Hoshang N. Akhtar “Despite all protestations of men to the contrary, married life makes them happy.” Jessie Bernard “Marriage is that relationship between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.” L.K. Anspacher “My fairest, my espous’d, my latest found, Heaven’s last best gift, my ever new delight!” John Milton “Married love is woven into a pattern of living. It has in it the elements of understanding and of the passionate kindness of husband and wife toward each other.” Leland Foster Wood “Marriage is the most natural state of man, and the state in which you will find solid happiness.” Benjamin Franklin “Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.” Joseph Joubert “Already the second day since our marriage, his love and gentleness is beyond everything, and to kiss that dear soft cheek, to press my lips to his, is heavenly bliss. I feel a purer more unearthly feel than I ever did. Oh! was ever a woman so blessed as I am.” Queen Victoria of Great Britain “To 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 |  |
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