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Wedding Quotes — 37 Wedding Quotes, Each Checked to Its Source

I guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life, because I know in my heart you're the only one for me.

Maggie Carpenter · Julia Roberts's bride who bolts from every altar until she meets Ike in Runaway Bride (1999) · The source reads: “But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life, because I know in my heart you're the only one for me.” · Maggie proposing to Ike at the end with the very words he once used on her, after a lifetime of running from the altar.

Je t'aime passionnément. I feel less shy in French.

Clementine Churchill · The source reads: “Je t'aime passionement – I feel less shy in French” · Written to Winston Churchill in August 1908, days after he proposed to her in the garden temple at Blenheim Palace; they married on 12 September and the marriage lasted fifty-seven years.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Henry van Dyke · Written for the sundial in the garden of Yaddo, first printed in 1901; in his own 1904 collection he changed the last words to "time is not."

Webster's Dictionary defines wedding as: the fusing of two metals with a hot torch.

Michael Scott · Steve Carell's regional manager in The Office (2005 to 2013) · The opening of Michael's uninvited toast at Phyllis and Bob Vance's wedding.

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

Anne Bradstreet · The opening of "To My Dear and Loving Husband," by the first poet of colonial America, to her husband Simon; she prized their love above whole mines of gold.

I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine.

The Bible · Song of Solomon 6:3. The line engraved inside more wedding rings than any other verse.

A threefold cord is not quickly broken.

The Bible · The source reads: “And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.” · Ecclesiastes 4:12. The Preacher's case that two are better than one, read at weddings as a picture of husband, wife and God bound into one cord.

There is nothing better in this world than that man and wife should be of one mind in a house.

Homer · The source reads: “May heaven grant you in all things your heart's desire, husband, house, and a happy, peaceful home; for there is nothing better in this world than that man and wife should be of one mind in a house.” · Odysseus, washed ashore and begging help from the princess Nausicaa, wishes her a husband and a home of one mind.

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

Mark Twain · The source reads: “Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.” · One of Pudd'nhead Wilson's calendar maxims heading a chapter of Twain's round the world travel book, loved for wedding toasts.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

The Bible · 1 Corinthians 13:4. The opening of Paul's hymn to love, read at more weddings than any other passage; the King James Version of 1611 has it as "Charity suffereth long, and is kind".

Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.

The Bible · The source reads: “And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.” · Ruth 1:16. Ruth's promise to her mother in law Naomi on the road to Bethlehem, the Old Testament's great pledge of lifelong loyalty and the most read scripture at weddings.

In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Advice from her mother-in-law Evelyn Ginsburg on her wedding day in 1954, which Ginsburg said she followed "not only at home through 56 years of a marital partnership nonpareil" but on the Supreme Court bench too; she passed it on in a New York Times op-ed on living well.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke · Rilke to the young officer Franz Kappus on what a real bond between two people asks, prose from the seventh letter, not a poem.

Every day I miss you, every night I miss you. How long do you want to stay a Miss? Marry me.

Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source of human offspring.

John Milton · The source reads: “Haile wedded Love, mysterious Law, true source / Of human ofspring, sole proprietie, / In Paradise of all things common else.” · Milton's hymn to married love as he describes Adam and Eve in their bower, written in the 1660s and still read at church weddings.

Reader, I married him.

Charlotte Brontë · The opening sentence of the final chapter, after Jane returns to the blinded Rochester at Ferndean.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

Franz Schubert · The source reads: “Happy is the man who finds a true man-friend; but happier still he who finds a true friend in his wife.” · A young Schubert writing in his diary in 1816, years before fame, on the luck of marrying your best friend.

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Friedrich Halm · Parthenia's words in the Austrian play, in Maria Lovell's English version Ingomar the Barbarian, which the Victorian stage made a byword for lovers.

To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.

The Book of Common Prayer · The source reads: “I M. take thee N. to my wedded Wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my troth.” · The English wedding vow as the groom and bride each say it in the 1662 service, the words behind nearly every vow spoken in English since.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life, to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain?

George Eliot · The narrator after Adam and Dinah agree never to part; the sentence read at weddings goes on "to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting."

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