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One Hundred Romantic Wedding Quotes
Summary: This article includes one hundred romantic
quotes about love and marriage that are perfect for wedding programs, toasts,
and invitations. Quotes have been put in alphabetical order by author’s last
name. Authors include Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning,
Charles Dickens, John Donne, Albert Einstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost,
Nikki Giovanni, Zora Neale Hurston, Milton, Mozart, Friedrich Nietzsche, William
Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, and more.
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If two stand shoulder to shoulder against the gods,
Happy together, the gods themselves are helpless
Against them while they stand so.
Maxwell Anderson
This day I will marry my friend, the one I laugh with, live
for, dream with, love.
Anonymous
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend forever.
Anonymous
Two lives, two hearts joined together in friendship united
forever in love.
Anonymous
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of
time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Anonymous
A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
Anonymous
Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy
in a heart.
Anonymous
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
True love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the
soul.
Honore de Balzac
When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are
everything to me.
Sarah Bernhardt
When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming
out.
Elizabeth Bowen
When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves
the one man, the very angels desert heaven and come and sit in that house and
sing for joy.
The Brahma Sutras
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Brontë
Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Bronte
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can
reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Grow old along with me: the best is yet to be.
Robert Browning
When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing
not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph Campbell
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
Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand
things without talking.
Chinese Proverb
The day after that wedding night, I found that a distance of
a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated
me from the day before.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Hark! The merry chimes are pealing,
Soft and glad the music swells,
Gaily in the night wind stealing,
Sweetly sound the wedding bells.
Eliza Cook
There are three things that last: faith, hope and love, and
the greatest of these is love.
I Corinthians 13:13
Love knows no limit to its endurance no end to its trust, Love
still stands when all else has fallen.
1 Corinthians 13:7-8
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when
I am with you.
Roy Croft
Are we not like two volumes of one book?
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each
other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to
talk to and sit with.
Charles Dickens
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands and crystal brooks,
With silken lines and silver hooks.
John Donne
If our two loves be one, or thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.
John Donne
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse,
hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
William O. Douglas
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant
of what it sought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many are the stars I see, but in my eye no star like thee.
English Saying
Marriage is love personified.
Phoenix Flame
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be
silly.
Rose Franken
Two souls, one heart.
French Saying
My whole heart for my whole life.
French Saying
Immature love says: "I love you because I need
you."
Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
Erich Fromm
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
For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Rosemonde Gerard
Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the
aid of the seasons.
Kahlil Gibran
You were born together, and together you shall be for
evermore. ... but let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds
of the heavens dance between you.
Kahlil Gibran
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Nikki Giovanni
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
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a
destination.
Roy Goodman
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person.
Germaine Greer
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
Friedrich Halm
The story of a love is not important—what is important is
that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of
eternity.
Helen Hayes
Love is like pi—natural, irrational, and very important.
Lisa Hoffman
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
I love thee—I love thee,
'Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.
Thomas Hood
Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted
union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve
until the last day of their existence.
Horace
He is blessed in love alone,
Who loves for years and loves but one.
Sir A. Hunt
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
In all of the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of plums.
Douglas Jerrold
My beloved is only water,
which is always flowing, and doesn't deceive,
which is always flowing, and doesn't change,
which is always flowing, and doesn't end.
Juan Ramón Jiménes
We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by
learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and
without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief
hour of its duration.
D. H. Lawrence
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and
as difficult as that.
Michael Leunig
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming
relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
Martin Luther
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
John Lyly
You were united to your wife by the Lord. In God's wise
plan, when you married, the two of you became one person in his sight.
Malachi 2:15
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.
Mark 10:9
A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems
too short.
Andre Maurois
Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other,
and brings fruition to both of you.
Millicent Carey McIntosh
There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.
Menander
Think not because you are now wed
That all your courtship's at an end.
Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza
Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human
happiness.
Milton
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Thomas Moore
Marriage is an Athenic 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.
Thomas Moore
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor
both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of
genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two heart that beat as one.
Franz Joseph von Munch-Bellinghausen
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
And one by one, the nights between our separated cities are
joined to the night that unites us.
Pablo Neruda
Marriage—a book of which the first chapter is written in
poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.
Beverly Nichols
Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who
is more than those who created it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the
fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do?
Friedrich Nietzsche
The highest happiness on Earth is marriage.
William Lyon Phelps
Let all thy joys be as the month of May,
And all thy days be as a marriage day.
Francis Quarles
Love me and the world is mine.
David Reed
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other
guardian of his solitude.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in
looking together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
George Sand
My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key.
Frederick Saunders
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, both are infinite.
William Shakespeare
My heart is ever at your service.
William Shakespeare
They do not love who do not show their love.
William Shakespeare
He is the half part of a blessed man
Left to be finished by such as she:
And she a fair divided excellence
Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
William Shakespeare
Grace and remembrance be to you both.
William Shakespeare
Now join hands, and with your hands your hearts.
William Shakespeare
Heaven give you many, many merry days.
William Shakespeare
Marriage is the mother of the world and preserves kingdoms,
and fills cities, and churches, and heaven itself.
Jeremy Taylor
Love is friendship set on fire.
Jeremy Taylor
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then
there is no hurt, but only more love.
Mother Teresa
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by
someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W. B. Yeats
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