Wedding Quotes - Page 19

• For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears and in her pockets she found the feathers, I asked a pear to become a pineapple, a pineapple to become a lightbulb, a lightbulb to become the moon, and the moon to become a coin I flipped for her love.

  Nicole Krauss

  Love, Moon, Shoes

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Love is not a whim. Love is not a flower that fades with a few fleeting years. Love is a choice wedded to action, my husband, and I choose you, and I will choose you every day for the rest of my life.

  Brent Weeks

  Husband, Flower, Love Is

  Brent Weeks (2012). “The Blinding Knife: Book 2 of Lightbringer”, p.475, Hachette UK

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• Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

  Samuel Pepys

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  'Diary' 25 December 1665

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• Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

  Aeschylus

  Marriage, Men, Married

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.131, University of Chicago Press

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• Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

  Abigail Adams

  Husband, Women, Power

  Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2

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• Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Heaven, Literature, Earth

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• Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

  Robert E. Lee

  Character, Civil War, Foundation

  "General Robert E. Lee After Appomattox" by Franklin Lafayette Riley, (p. 18), 1922.

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• Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

  Thomas Fuller

  Marriage, Eye, Wife

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• I can't walk by chocolate without eating it.

  Malin Akerman

  Chocolate, Dessert, Eating

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Marriage, Passion

  Getting Married preface (1911)

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• You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.

  Bess Truman

  Church, Want, Might

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• I love a black wedding dress.

  Vera Wang

  Black, Dresses, Wedding Dress

  "Vera Wang's L.A. Story - Photos of Vera Wang's Hollywood Home" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 10, 2012.

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• They do not love that do not show their love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Marriage, Valentines Day

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.20

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• If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

  Kris Kristofferson

  God, Women, Thinking

  "Kris Kristofferson: What I've Learned" by Scott Carrier, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

  Peter Ustinov

  Hate, Night, Doors

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• If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Funny, Heart

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “The Anna Karenina Companion: Includes Complete Text, Study Guide, Biography, and Character Index: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.513, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

  Barbra Streisand

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

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• What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.

  James Stephens

  Education, Wisdom, Heart

  James Stephens (2015). “The Crock of Gold”, p.93, Booklassic

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• Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Marriage, Opportunity, Temptation

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903)

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• A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Two, Ceremony, Persons

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.233, 谷月社

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• When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

  Langston Hughes

  People, Soul, Care

  Langston Hughes (2004). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Gospel plays, operas, and later dramatic works”, p.201, University of Missouri Press

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• Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Marriage, Bird, Cages

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 5, 1595.

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• I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

  Charles Bukowski

  Marriage, Single, Wife

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• We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Men, Feelings

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