In
all of the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of plums.
- Douglas Jerrold
Marriage--a
book of which the first chapter is written in poetry
and the remaining chapters written in prose.
- Beverly Nichols
Marriage
is the mother of the world and preserves kingdoms, and
fills cities, and churches, and heaven itself.
- Dr. Jeremy Taylor
There
are three things that last: faith, hope and love, and
the greatest of these is love.
-
I Corinthians 13:13
Honor,
riches, marriage-blessing
Long continuance, and increasing,
Hourly joys be still upon you!
- William Shakespeare
You
were born together, and together you shall be for evermore....but
let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the
winds of the heavens dance between you.
- Kahlil
Gibran
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
Hark!
The merry chimes are pealing,
Soft and glad the music swells,
Gaily in the night wind stealing,
Sweetly sound the wedding bells.
- Eliza Cook
Ask
the child why it is born; ask the flower why it blossoms;
ask the sun why it shines. I love you because I must
love you.
- George P. Upton
Marriage
is ever made by destiny.
- George Chapman
Two
human loves make one divine.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A
happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting
point for happiness and usefulness.
- Dean Stanley
Wedded
love is founded on esteem.
- Elijah Fenton
I
have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
- W.B. Yeats
Something
old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.
- Old
English Rhyme
Marriage
is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of
what it sought. - Ralph Waldo
Emerson
To
have and to hold from this day forward, for better
or worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and
in health, to love and to cherish to death do us
part.
- Book
of Common Prayer |
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When
you meet someone who can cook and do housework--don't
hesitate a minute--marry him.
- Unknown
When
you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing
not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
Let
us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
- Plautus
There
is nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.
- Thomas Moore
He
is blessed in love alone,
Who loves for years and loves but one.
- Sir A. Hunt
Grace
and remembrance be to you both.
- William Shakespeare
One
should believe in marriage as in the immortality of
the soul.
- Honore de Balzac
Two
souls with but a single thought,
Two heart that beat as one.
- Franz Joseph von Munch-Bellinghausen
To
keep your marriage brimming,
With
love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash
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With
this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship,
and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.
- Book
of Common Prayer |
Whatever
souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
- Emily
Bronte
Happy
and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted
union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints,
shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.
- Horace
He
is the half part of a blessed man
Left to be finished by such as she:
And she a fair divided excellence
Whose fulness of perfection lies in him.
- William Shakespeare
Heaven
give you many, many merry days.
- William Shakespeare
A
good marriage is that in which each appoints the other
guardian of his solitude.
- Rainer
Maria Rilke
We
come to love not by finding the perfect person, but
by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Sam Keen
Hail,
wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.
.- Milton
Now
join hands, and with your hands your hearts.
- William
Shakespeare
Come
live with me and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands and crystal brooks,
With silken lines and silver hooks.
- John Donne
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