These could be used as part of your ceremony,
or as part of a speech (but make sure that the other speechmakers
haven't chosen them for their own speeches!) and be careful
not to offend anyone!!
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and
necessary,
yet no one agrees on just what it is.
~ Diane Ackerman
Marriage is more than four bare legs in
a bed.
~ Hoshang N. Akhtar
In a great romance, each person plays a
part the other really likes.
~ Elizabeth Ashley
I married beneath me. All women do.
~ Lady Nancy Astor, attributed
Accept the things to which fate binds you,
and love the people with whom
fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
~ Marcus Aurelius
It is always incomprehensible to a man that
a woman
should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
~ Jane Austen
Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh,
it leaves 'em two fools
~ William Congreve
If it were not for the presents, an elopement
would be preferable.
~ George Ade
Love is more than gold or great riches.
~ John Lydgate
Women are meant to be loved, not understood.
~ Oscar Wilde
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat
as one.
~ Maria Lovell
She who has never lov'd, has never liv'd.
~ John Gay
Love makes the world go round.
~ John Gay
Love is best.
~ Robert Browning
A happy bridesmaid is a happy bride.
~ Lord Tennyson
Women have their faults,
Men have only two;
Everything they say,
Everything they do.
~ Anon
Blest is the bride on whom the sun doth shine.
~ Robert Herrick
Marriage is one of the most profound passages
of life a person experiences.
This is because it includes three significant stages,
simultaneously incorporating an ending, a merging, and a beginning.
~ Sydney Barbara Metrick
We come to know each other in the long unraveling
of time.
~ Daphne Rose Kingma
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings
in such a way as to
complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins
them by what is deepest in themselves.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
In love, the paradox occurs that two beings
become one and yet remain two.
~ Erich Fromm
Married in August's heat and drowse -- Lover
and friend in your chosen spouse
Married in September's golden glow -- Smooth and serene your
life will go
~ American folklore
I come to the celebration in a spirit of
joy, but it is not a time of simple joy,
it is a reflection on all the stuff of life.
~ Anon
To get the full value of joy you must have
someone to divide it with.
~ Mark Twain
There is only one happiness in life, to love
and be loved.
~ George Sand
I have come to the conclusion never again
to think of marrying, and for this reason:
I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead
enough to have me.
~ Abraham Lincoln, in a letter, 1 April 1838
The web of marriage is made by propinquity,
in the day-to-day living side by side,
looking outward and working forward in the same direction.
It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Two such as you with such a master speed
Cannot be parted nor 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
A good marriage is at least eighty per cent
good luck in
finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
~ Nanette Newman
Life has taught us that love does not consist
in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What is there in the vale of life Half so
delightful as a wife,
When friendship, love and peace combine To stamp the marriage
bond divine?
~ William Cowper
Marriage is a career which brings about more
benefits than many others.
~ Simone De Beauvoir
'I pay very little regard,' said Mrs. Grant,
'to what any young person
says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination
for it,
I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.'
~ Jane Austen
Love is friendship set on fire
~ Jeremy Taylor
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
~ Ogden Nash
By all means marry; if you get a good wife,
you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
~ Socrates
A life without love is like a year without
summer
~ Swedish saying
The goal in marriage is not to think alike,
but think together.
~ Carolyn Heilbrun
You only grow by coming to the end of
something and by beginning something else.
~ John Irving
The greatest joys are celebrations of the
heart.
~ Flavia