Wedding Quotes - Page 18

• Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Love, Past, Individual

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Our dog died from licking our wedding picture.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Dog, Licking

  "Phyllis Diller Started in San Francisco" by Corey Andrew, www.nbcbayarea.com. August 22, 2012.

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• Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.311

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• It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

  David Byrne

  Happy Marriage, Quick Fixes, Wanted

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• 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

  Mean, Years, Two

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• A man who is free and unmarried, if he has some intelligence, can rise above his fortune, mingle in society and meet the best people on an equal footing. This is harder for a married man: marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Seems, Every Man

  "Of Personal Merit". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray.

  Amy Poehler

  Jobs, Shrimp, Indiana

  "Amy Poehler: Playing Politics, But Only On Television". NPR Interview, www.npr.org. October 20, 2011.

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• 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

  Fun, Play, One Day

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• The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.

  Brian May

  Wedding Day, March, Bits

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• We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

  Paul McCartney

  Army, Bells, Splits

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• When I get married, it'll be no secret.

  Elvis Presley

  Redneck, Secret Love, Married

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• I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.

  Rachel McAdams

  Inspirational, Funny, Class

  "Rachel McAdams: OK, We Love This Girl!". Interview with Alexandra Marshall, www.glamour.com. January 2, 2012.

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• A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Song, Happy Marriage

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• I told her that there was something about Christmas carols that always brought tears to my eyes. I added that I also cry at weddings. To me weddings are very solemn occasions. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

  Ethel Merman

  Christmas, Couple, Eye

  "Merman: An Autobiography".

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• Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Marriage, Sunset

  Ann Landers (2017). “Since You Ask Me”, p.76, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.

  Rose Kennedy

  Women, Memorable, Littles

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• Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Monsters, Literature

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• No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.

  Shirley Bassey

  Years, Bells, Married

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• Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.

  Paul Hornung

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

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• Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

  Stephen Leacock

  Love, Marriage, Girl

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

  Charles Simmons

  Inspirational, Character, Half

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.327

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• 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

  Relationship, Boxing, Together

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• I was the best man at the wedding... If I'm the best man, why is she marrying him?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Men, Ifs, Marrying

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• Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

  Francis Bacon

  Marriage, Men, Wife

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Marriage and the Single Life'

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• Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.37, Lulu Press, Inc

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