Wedding Quotes

The married lyfe is the only lyfe

Petite Pallace: George Pettie, 1576.

To the church the parties went, At once with carnal and devout intent.

January and May: Alexander Pope, 1711.

Let all thy joys be as the month of May

And all thy days be as marriage Day

Let sorrow, sickness and a troubled mind

Be stranger to thee.

To a Bride: Francis Quarles, 1635.

Let nothing break our bond but Death
For in the world above
‘Tis the breaker Death that soldereth
Our ring of Wedded Love.

On a Wedding Day: Gerald Massey, 1857.

The sum which two married people
owe each to one another defies
calculation. It is an infinite debt,
which can only be discharged
through all eternity.

Elective Affinities: Johann Van Goethe, 1808.

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

Man and Superman: G B. Shaw, 1903.

It is not good that man should live alone;
I will make him a help mate.

Old Testament.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on earth.

Mother Bombie: John Lyly, 1590.

Marriage appointed by fate ‘twixt man and woman
Is mightier than an oath, and Justice is its guardian.

Aeschylus: Eumenides, 458 B.C.

My Lord Denbigh is going to marry a fortune, I forget her name:
my Lord Gower ask him how long the honey-moon would last?
He replied, Don’t tell me of the honey-moon;
it is the harvest moon with me.”

from a letter by Horace Walpole, 1756.

Look, how my ring encompasseth thy finger,
Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart;
Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.

Richard the Second: William Shakespeare, 1593.

As your wedding ring wears, You’ll wear off your cares.

Gnomologia No. 6146: Thomas Fuller, 1642.

Rich and rare were the gems she wore,
And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.
Rich and Rare Were The Gems She Wore,

Irish Melodies: Thomas Moore, 1807 to 1835.

Blest is the bride, on whom the Sun doth shine.

A Nuptiall Song: Robert Herrick, 1648.

There is something about a wedding gown prettier
than any other gown in the world.

Douglas Jerrold’s Wit: A Wedding Gown; Douglas Jerrold, 1859.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface,
but such qualities as would wear well.

The Vicar of Wakefield: Oliver Goldsmith, 1766.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

The Prophet, on Marriage: Kahlil Gibran, 1923.

His designs were honourable, as the phrase is,
that is to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

Tom Jones: Fielding, 1749.

A woman of sixty, like a girl of six,
runs at the sound of wedding music.

Babylonian Talmud: Jebamoth, 450 B.C.

I do not pretend to have discovered that life has anything more
to be desired than a prudent and virtuous marriage…

Life of Johnson: James Boswell, 1791.

The ideal marriage is not one in which two people marry to be happy,
but to make each other happy.

Roy L. Smith, 1886.

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble
than a summons to a police court.

William Feather, Date Unknown.

Nothing is greater or better than this;
that a man and wife dwell together n accord.

Odyssey: Homer, 850 B.C.

Marriage has no enemies that can survive a happy night.

Ancient Chinese Proverb: Date Unknown.

A happy bridesmaid makes a happy bride.

The Bridesmaid: Alfred Tennyson, 1836.

Bridesmaids may soon be brides; one wedding brings on another.

Salt-cellars: C. H. Spurgeon, 1919.

Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.
I sing of maypoles, hock-harts, wassails, wakes,
Of Bridegrooms, Brides, and of their bridal cakes.

Hesperides: Robert Herrick, 1648.

Love begets love.

Hesperides: Robert Herrick, 1648.

There’s nothing like the devotion of a married woman.
It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

Lady Windermere’s Fan: Oscar Wilde, 1892.

The first month of marriage, when there is nothing
but tenderness and pleasure.

Samuel Johnson: Dictionary, 1755.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

The Spectator: Joseph Addison, 1771.

For I’m not so old, and I’m not so plain,
And I’m quite prepared to marry again.

Johanne: W. S. Gilbert, 1882.

Perfect love casts out prudery together with fear.

De Flagello Myrteo: Fichard Garnett, 1905.

A man’s best possession is a loving wife.

Anatomy of Melancholy: Robert Burton, 1641.

Marriage should be like work, Easy to love at best and best if it is easy to love

Anonymous

All perfect marriages are made up of couples who accept the fact that they have an imperfect marriage.

Anonymous

Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all two.

Ambrose Bierce

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

Courtship: Is like looking at the beautiful photos in a seed catalog.
Marriage: Is what actually comes up in your garden.

Anonymous

Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other’s nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings.

Dave Barry

The most effective way to remember your spouse’s birthday is to forget it once.

Anonymous

Some people are so determined to find blissful happiness that they overlook a lifetime of contentment.

Anonymous

Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Zora Neale Hurston

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

Anonymous