Wedding Quotes

Cherish this most exhaustive and marvelous collection of Wedding Quotes with your beloved spouse. These Famous Quotes on Wedding Anniversary are written some of the most profound and revered writers of our times and reflect on the beauty and nature of marriage. Some of these Wedding Quotes touch as they beautifully describe the essence of marriage in a simple line while others tickle you with their subtle humor. You may also quote these wedding quotes in the special anniversary card you bought for your dearest husband/wife.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on earth.
John Lyly, The Anatomy of Wit.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
Martin Luther

Oh, how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring!
Colley Cibber, The Double Gallant, prologue.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Samuel Johnson

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
Henny Youngman

Marriage is love personified.
Phoenix Flame

Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.
Emerson

I . . . chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.
Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield, ch. 1.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
William O. Douglas

Marriage is like life in this-that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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

For years [my wedding ring] has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Erma Bombeck

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.
Rainer Maria Rilke

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Germaine Greer

I never married. Nobody ever asked me.
Mattie White, on her 100th birthday

A lady of 47 who has been married 27 years and has 6 children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'
James Thurber

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.
Johnny Carson

(Marriage) is not by any to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly; but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in the fear of God.
Solemnization of Matrimony

With this ring I thee wed.
Solemnization of Matrimony

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

In all of the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of plums.
Douglas Jerrold

When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph Campbell

When you meet someone who can cook and do housework - don't hesitate a minute - marry him.
Unknown

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.
Beverly Nichols

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
Plautus

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Honore de Balzac

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

Marriage is a partnership in which each inspire the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
Millicent Carey McIntosh

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
Joseph Barth

Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.
Chinese Proverb

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

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
Billy Sunday

Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
Zsa Zsa Gabor

Two souls with but a single thought,
Two heart that beat as one.
Franz Joseph von MunchBellinghausen

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain - 25th Wedding Anniversary Quote

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

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

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

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

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Roy Goodman

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

The Japanese have a word for it.
It's Judo -- the art of conquering by yielding.
The Western equivalent of judo is, 'Yes, dear.'
J. P. McEvoy

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West

One advantage of marriage it seems to me is that when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you it keeps you together until maybe you fall in again.
Judith Viorst

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Martin Luther

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until maybe you fall in again.
Judith Viorst