May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise. — Rumi
Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God. — Myles Munroe
Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What's our baggage? Only vows,
Happiness, and all our care,
And the flower that sweetly shows
Nestling lightly in your hair. — Victor Hugo
I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I'll likely be married to the soldier mob for better and for worse to live and to die. — Charles XII of Sweden
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. — Aeschylus
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day. — Barbara De Angelis
Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. — Esther Perel
The sun will stand as your best man
And whistle
When you have found the courage
To marry forgiveness
When you have found the courage
to marry
Love. — Hafez
Short Wedding Vow Quotes
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. — Edwin Louis Cole
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude — Rainer Maria Rilke
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers. — Eddie Cantor
Love is a promise; love is a souvenir. — John Lennon
The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before. — Irving Stone
Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps. — Joe Murray
Our death is our wedding with eternity. — Rumi
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it. And if I was a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
Marriage Vows Quotes
Conservatives believe in the ties that bind us. Society is stronger when we make vows to each other and we support each other. I don't support gay marriage in spite of being a conservative. I support gay marriage because I am a conservative. — David Cameron
The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must
be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal. — Frank Pittman
I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die. — Bayard Taylor
If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows. — Sam Kinison
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten. — Dick Gregory
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. — Anne Bradstreet
The free exchange of consent properly witnessed by the Church establishes the marriage bond. Sexual union consummates it - seals it, completes it, perfects it. Sexual union, then, is where the words of the wedding vows become flesh. — Christopher West
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate. — Pope John Paul II
Never is true love blind, but rather brings an added light. — Phoebe Cary
Love is contraband in Hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars. But you, me, and tomorrow hold hands and make vows that struggle will multiply. The hacksaw has two blades. The shotgun has two barrels. We are pregnant with freedom. We are a conspiracy. — Assata Shakur
I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now! — Paul Tillich
The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him. — Oscar Wilde
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. — Franz Schubert
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. — Gwendolyn Brooks
We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in full glow of love for others. — Walter Rauschenbusch
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. — J. D. Salinger
Night and day you are the one,
Only you beneath the moon and under the sun. — Cole Porter
Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all. — Henny Youngman
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. — Herbert V. Prochnow
That love is all there is, Is all we know of love. — Emily Dickinson
Wedding Ceremony Quotes
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran
Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. — Richard Bach
The animals sacrificed feet of the bride during the wedding ceremony. — Turkish Proverbs
We sit in a room, laugh, and all come up with comedy situations, which we work out. Sometimes we cross the line, like getting a guy to pull out of his own wedding while the ceremony's taking place. — Joe Gatto
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. — Margery Williams
I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. — Pablo Neruda
My true love hath my heart, and I have his — Philip Sidney
Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. — Louis de Bernieres
May you have happiness, and may you find it making one another happy. — James Dillet Freeman
When you love someone you do not love them, all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Wedding Blessings Quotes
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping,
For only the hand of God can contain your hearts. — Kahlil Gibran
May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding. — James Dillet Freeman
You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran
Let all thy joys be as the month of May,And all thy days be as a marriage day. — Francis Quarles
When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze. — Cassandra Clare
How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during the sequel of marriage! — Arthur Frederick Saunders
Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two. — Honore de Balzac
It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents. — H. L. Mencken
Honor, riches, marriage-blessing
Long continuance, and increasing,
Hourly joys be still upon you! — William Shakespeare
Wedding Poetry Quotes
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. — Oscar Wilde
I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself? — Walt Whitman
And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart I carry your heart [ i carry it in my heart ] — E. E. cummings
Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it seems, one golden morning, the Bush awakes, a living thing. Flowers bloom, birds sing, and all the world puts on its gayest dress to greet the laughing Spring. — C. J. Dennis
But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. — Robin Williams
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd? — John Donne
grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made. — Robert Browning
i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows — E. E. cummings
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you — E. E. cummings
There is no such cozy combination as man and wife. — Menander
A husband is like a fire. He goes out when unattended. — Evan Esar
Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her. — Helen Rowland
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. — Frederick Buechner
A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted". Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine." — Brad Pitt
I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. — Lewis Grizzard
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. — Robert Fulghum
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. — Paulo Coelho
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps. — Ronald Reagan
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Leo Tolstoy
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. — Irwin Corey
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. — James Dobson
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late. — Frank Sinatra
Wedding Quotes
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
While other nations do battle, you lucky Austria, you wed. — Maria Theresa
When I am in the battlefield, I love it more than my wedding night with the most beautiful of women — Khalid ibn al-Walid
When Jesus sees a heart that can't wait, He cant wait either. At the wedding at Cana, Jesus may have done nothing if it wasn't for Mary's faith. How many situations are we in now that God won't act without our faith? — Reinhard Bonnke
You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts. — Owen Wilson
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
My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite. — William Shakespeare
You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh. — Jay Leno
Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. — George Carlin
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? — Dorothy Parker
Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret. — Big Pun
Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. — Albert Einstein
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
Corpses and annoying guests stink by the third day — Mexican Proverbs
Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice we got it wrong. I needed you to be there for my wedding day but I was too stupid to see that I needed you to be the reason for my wedding day. But we got it all wrong. — Cecelia Ahern
There’s days in training where everything flows and days in training where they don’t. You just pray that doesn’t happen the night of the fight. — Holly Holm
Past is gone, present is going, and tomorrow is day after tomorrow’s yesterday. So why worry about anything? God is in all this. — R.K. Narayan
A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day. — Sarah Ruhl
The day you marry your dreams is the day you divorce your nightmares. — Matshona Dhliwayo
I love thee, I love thee with a love that shall not die. Till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old. — William Shakespeare
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold. — Anne Bradstreet
Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. — Louis de Bernieres
I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday — Nicholas Sparks
There will always be people who will accept you for what you are! — Sakura Tsukuba
Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows with only this one dream: You come too. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Indeed, baptism is a vow, a sacred vow of the believer to follow Christ. Just as a wedding celebrates the fusion of two hearts, baptism celebrates the union of sinner with Savior. — Max Lucado
I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of all my life. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It was just enough to sit there without words. — Louise Erdrich
The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching a bride walk down the aisle - moments as eternal and full of love as the lifting of veils, the saying of vows and the moment of the first wedded kiss. — Douglas Coupland
I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine. — Rumi
If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can. — Anne Bradstreet
Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth for the other. Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other. Now you are two persons, but there are three lives before you: His life, Her Life, and Your life together. — Ann Aguirre
When I did get married, and specifically after I got married and the New York Times style section featured my wedding in the vows column, which is really traditionally kind of seen as an elitist column, and it is, but I was happy to be in it. I thought it was good that they were covering a feminist wedding. — Jessica Valenti
A wedding was a strange ceremony, she thought, with all those formal words, those solemn vows made by one to another; whereas the real question that should be put to the two people involved was a very simple one. Are you happy with each other? was the only question that should be asked; to which they both should reply, preferably in unison, Yes. — Alexander McCall Smith
To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave. — Voltaire
Instead of reading vows at the wedding ceremony, they read hacked Sony emails. — David Letterman
If you exchanged wedding vows, tape them to your bathroom mirror and read them aloud to yourself every morning along with the ritual brushing of teeth. It's not realistic to believe that you will live your promises as a daily practice -- unless you're a saint or a highly evolved Zen Buddhist. Not where marriage is concerned. But you can make a practice of returning to your vows when the going gets rough. — Harriet Lerner
As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father "giving" the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to "obey" the groom. And that only covers the wedding. — Jessica Valenti
Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love. — Timothy Keller
The wedding vows are a license to be a complete jerk, with full knowledge that the person you married has agreed, no matter how large a horse's ass you are, to stay by your side until death. A fool could tell you this is a bad deal. — Adriana Trigiani
My wife's not some doobie to be passed around! I took a vow on our wedding day to bogart her for life. — Homer
The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the “I do” of the wedding ritual in all sincerity, it is the testing of that vow over time that makes you married. — Kathleen Norris
From the first, you enchanted me. You are more than beautiful. You are smart and strong and determined. When I'm with you. I want to be a better man. I want to be worthy of you. I want to provide for you I want to give you the life you deserve. One day, I will. Because I know, deep in my soul, that to part is to die. - Gideon to Scarlet (wedding vows) — Gena Showalter
Guys care about sports teams. I'm not talking about simply rooting; I'm talking about a relationship that guys develop, a commitment to a sport team that guys take way more seriously than, for example, wedding vows. — Dave Barry
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