Wedding Quotes - Page 11

• Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.

  Anne Hathaway

  Important, Celebrate Life, Possibility

  Interview with Chelsea Handler, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2011.

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• He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Love, Marriage, Children

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.41

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• In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

  Gerald Brenan

  Anniversary, Husband, Wife

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• Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Husband, Conceited

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.126, Penguin

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• Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

  Hesiod

  Marriage, Sisterhood, Sorrow

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• The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

  Richard Steele

  Marriage, Heaven, Receiving

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1841). “The Spectator: with sketches of the lives of the authors, an index, and explanatory notes”

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• My biggest blast-off hit was "You Raise Me Up." If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick.

  Josh Groban

  Funeral, Blast, Raises

  "Crazy Stupid Groban". Interview with Lauren Bans, www.gq.com. July 27, 2011.

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• Without love, the world itself would not survive.

  Lope de Vega

  Love, World, Toasts

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• People always complain, 'you never invited me to your wedding', but I prefer casual weddings.

  Sinead O'Connor

  People, Complaining, Casual

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• Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

  Cass Daley

  Marriage, Women, Giving

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• 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, Sight, Sea

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.503, Wordsworth Editions

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• Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

  Louis K Anspacher

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.

  John Berger

  Marriage, Different, Bridal Shower

  1985 The White Bird,'The Storyteller'.

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• Love, free as air, at sight of human ties,
  Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

  Alexander Pope

  Love, Life, Sexy

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.241

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• Oh my luve's like a red, red rose,
  That's newly sprung in June;
  Oh my luve's like the melodie
  That's sweetly played in tune.

  Robert Burns

  Love, Life, Flower

  'A Red Red Rose' (1796) (derived from various folk-songs)

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• My wife is so stupendously ugly it is easier to take her with me than to kiss her goodbye.

  Max Miller

  Marriage, Goodbye, Kissing

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• I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.

  Samuel Johnson

  Marriage, Men, Understanding

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.34

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• Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.

  Anne Sexton

  Marriage, Heart, House

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Wedding is destiny,
  And hanging likewise.

  John Heywood

  Marriage, Destiny

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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• Let all thy joys be as the month of May,And all thy days be as a marriage day.

  Francis Quarles

  Blessing, Joy, May

  Francis Quarles (1726). “Argalus and Parthenia”, p.79

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• The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.

  Alexandre Dumas-fils

  Marriage, Two, Three

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• 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

  Marriage, Opportunity, Law

  Joseph Cook (1879). “Monday Lectures in Tremont Hall, Boston, U.S.”

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• Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Marriage, Order, Wish

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• Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

  Rebecca West

  Marriage, Divorce, Cheerful

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• A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Marriage, Wife, Desire

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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