Wedding Quotes, Sayings about Marriage
I always cry at weddings, especially my own.
- Humphrey Bogart
You can’t be value free when it comes to marriage.
- Al Gore
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
- Plautus
Two souls with but a single thought, Two heart that beat as one.
- Franz Joseph
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
- Honore De Balzac
Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.
- Milton
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Honor, riches, marriage blessing Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you!
- William Shakespeare
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
When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
Marriage is the mother of the world and preserves kingdoms, and fills cities, and churches, and heaven itself.
- Dr. Jeremy Taylor
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
- Leo Tolstoy
The most important marriage skill is listening to your partner in a way that they can’t possibly doubt that you love them.
- Diane Sollee
Isn’t it time some real financial support was made available for the growth and
development of truly healthy and happy marriages?
- David Mace
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
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
We took our time [preparing for marriage], we looked forward to it; didn’t want to run into something and have nothing to count on but love.
- Aunt May
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
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
They say it takes a village to raise a child. That may be the case, but the truth is that it takes a lot of solid, stable marriages to create a village.
- Diane Sollee
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
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
Grace and remembrance be to you both.
- William Shakespeare
A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.
- Dean Stanley


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