Wedding famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
-- Abigail Adams -
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
-- Aeschylus -
The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.
-- Alexandre Dumas-fils -
My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth -
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
-- Amy Grant -
My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
-- Anita Diament -
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
-- Ann Landers -
Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.
-- Anna Quindlen -
Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.
-- Anne Hathaway -
Think not because you are now wed That all your courtship's at an end.
-- Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza -
It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano.
-- Arthur Rubinstein -
Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
-- Bertrand Russell -
You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.
-- Bess Truman -
In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness
-- Bill Moyers -
We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
-- Blaise Pascal -
When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.
-- Bob Seger -
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
-- Booth Tarkington -
Love is not a whim. Love is not a flower that fades with a few fleeting years. Love is a choice wedded to action, my husband, and I choose you, and I will choose you every day for the rest of my life.
-- Brent Weeks -
The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.
-- Brian May -
That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding; as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to right, looking at people and smiling in the way that Diana did - and that diamond tiara glittering like mad. It was great.
-- Bruce Oldfield -
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
-- Charles Bukowski -
if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.
-- Charles Lamb -
Happiness is anyone and anything that's loved by you.
-- Charles M. Schulz -
A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.
-- Charles Simmons -
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
-- Christopher Morley -
I really did put up all my wedding pictures on my website. And I swear to you, my wedding pictures got downloaded just as much as my bikini pictures.
-- Cindy Margolis -
There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.
-- Claire Forlani -
Night and day you are the one, Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.
-- Cole Porter -
Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.
-- Colley Cibber -
The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.
-- David Miliband -
I don't think it's possible to have a wedding without it being stressful!
-- Debra Messing -
After I had the Caesarean, I was told I had really strong stomach muscles and so would heal very quickly. And I did. I was up walking about within three hours. Six days after having her, I was out shopping and shortly after that I made it to David Walliams' wedding.
-- Denise Van Outen -
I like getting married, but I don't like being married.
-- Don Adams -
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 -
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
-- Eddie Cantor -
Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
-- Eddie Cantor -
A soulmate is an ongoing connection with another individual that the soul picks up again in various times and places over lifetimes. We are attracted to another person at a soul level not because that person is our unique complement, but because by being with that individual, we are somehow provided with an impetus to become whole ourselves.
-- Edgar Cayce -
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
-- Edwin Louis Cole -
Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.
-- Elliott Erwitt -
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
-- Elsa Maxwell -
Personally, I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding... I'd be upset.
-- Emily Blunt -
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
-- Enid Bagnold -
People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.
-- Erma Bombeck -
Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.
-- Ethel Merman -
When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later.
-- Eydie Gorme -
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
-- Francis Bacon -
I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.
-- Frank Carson -
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
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 -
Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.
-- George Eliot -
Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.
-- George Jean Nathan -
My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz.
-- Georgina Chapman -
I didn't finish my dress until about three days before my wedding - I had the flu and was stitching it from my bed. And the tulle came back from India all brown. We had to wash it for hours, but that didn't dissuade me from wearing it.
-- Georgina Chapman -
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
-- Gerald Brenan -
In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.
-- Groucho Marx -
I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.
-- Gwen Stefani -
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.
-- Gwendolyn Brooks -
The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.
-- H. L. Mencken -
O month when they who love must love and wed.
-- Helen Hunt Jackson -
In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.
-- Helen Reddy -
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
-- Helen Rowland -
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 -
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
-- Honore de Balzac -
I always cry at weddings, especially my own.
-- Humphrey Bogart -
I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort.
-- J. M. W. Turner -
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
-- Jackie Kennedy -
That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
-- James M. Barrie -
What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.
-- James Stephens -
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
-- Jane Austen -
I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It's not about a production number, it's about a meaningful moment between two people that's witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about.
-- Jane Seymour -
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
-- Jean Giraudoux -
An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.
-- Jean Giraudoux -
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
-- Jean Kerr -
I am usually part of any disaster at a wedding if I'm a bridesmaid, which I've been lucky enough to be several times.
-- Jennifer Garner -
I always cry at weddings; they're beautiful, and I'm always moved.
-- Jennifer Westfeldt -
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
-- Jeremy Taylor -
I don't ever really feel that wearing my wedding ring is what determines me being married or not.
-- Jessica Simpson -
Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.
-- John Boehner -
Man was not intended to live alone... marriage is the best cure for that wretched lingering over one's work. I think I must feel more settled than you all. I would immensely like to see you all married like myself and anchored.
-- John Everett Millais -
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly -
A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.
-- John Mayer -
Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.
-- John Selden -
I think if you're at the point where you're popular enough to sell your wedding photos to OK! Magazine then you don't need the money.
-- Johnny Vegas -
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 -
Until we have a natural, that is, a conscientious world, it cannot be known by experience what natural law will do for the gratification of a supreme affection; but, if you will give me that world, there will be in it very few not called to marriage, provided society allows proper opportunities for acquaintance between marriageable persons.
-- Joseph Cook -
What kind of wedding do you want?" "The one with a groom.
-- Jude Deveraux -
The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it.
-- Judith McNaught -
I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.
-- Julia Roberts -
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
-- Katharine Hepburn -
I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.
-- Katherine Jenkins -
A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.
-- Kenny Loggins
