Wedding quotes
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning photo

“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”

No. LXIII
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Variant: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach
Context: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
Context: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! —and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Paul McCartney photo

“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

Paul McCartney (1942) English singer-songwriter and composer

"The End"; The last full song track of Abbey Road (1969) the last Beatles album to be recorded before the band broke up. (Let It Be was the last album released, but had been recorded earlier.)
Lyrics, The Beatles
Source: The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics

Henry Drummond photo

“you will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”

Henry Drummond (1851–1897) Scottish evangelist, writer and lecturer

Variant: You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Jane Austen photo
Leo Tolstoy photo
Lily Tomlin photo

“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?”

Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer

Contributions of Jane Wagner
Source: Many Moons

Jane Austen photo

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Variant: In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will no longer be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
Source: Pride And Prejudice

Victor Hugo photo

“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”

Variant: To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
Source: Les Misérables

Jane Austen photo

“It's such a happiness when good people get together.”

Variant: It is such a happiness when good people get together -- and they always do.
Source: Emma

Marianne Williamson photo

“May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

E.E. Cummings photo

“You are my sun,
my moon, and
all my stars.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Variant: Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

Jane Austen photo
Maya Angelou photo
Elizabeth Barrett Browning photo
Julia Child photo
Nicholas Sparks photo

“I want all of you, forever everyday. You and me everyday.”

Variant: I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday
Source: The Notebook

Paul Sweeney photo
E.E. Cummings photo

“Love is the whole and more than all.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Source: 100 Selected Poems

F. Scott Fitzgerald photo
James Baldwin photo

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

Sam Keen (1931) author, professor, and philosopher

Variant: Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Source: To Love and Be Loved

Nicholas Sparks photo
William Goldman photo
F. Scott Fitzgerald photo
Elizabeth Barrett Browning photo

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author

Source: Selected Poems

Nicholas Sparks photo
Ben Sherwood photo
Paulo Coelho photo
Emily Brontë photo
Rick Warren photo
Margaret Mitchell photo

“You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.”

Variant: You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
Source: Gone with the Wind

Michel De Montaigne photo

“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

Book III, Ch. 5
Attributed

John Wilmot photo
Paulo Coelho photo
Leo Tolstoy photo
Carson McCullers photo
Albert Einstein photo
Sarah Dessen photo
Paulo Coelho photo
Albert Einstein photo

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Variant: You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Leo Buscaglia photo

“Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Speaking Of Love (1980)

Maya Angelou photo
Chinmayananda Saraswati photo

“To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

John Green photo

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; Slowly, and then all at once.”

Hazel Grace Lancaster, p. 125
Compare Ernest Hemingway, speaking about the process of going bankrupt: "'Gradually and then suddenly.'"
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)

“Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and difficult as that.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Emanuel Swedenborg photo

“Man knows that love is, but not what it is.”

Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian

Divine Love and Wisdom #1

Rumi photo

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

Helen Schucman in A Course in Miracles (1976) by Helen Schucman and William Thetford, Ch. 16 The Forgiveness of Illusions, p. 338,#6.
Misattributed

Jane Wagner photo

“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?”

Jane Wagner (1935) Playwright, actress

Other material for Lily Tomlin

“After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage!”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage

János Arany photo

“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”

János Arany (1817–1882) Hungarian writer

As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893) by James Wood, p. 11

Robert Frost photo

“Love at the lips was touch
As sweet as I could bear;
And once that seemed too much;
I lived on air”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

" To Earthward http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-earthward-2/", st. 1 (1923)
1920s

Nico photo

“You are beautiful and you are alone.”

Nico (1938–1988) German musician, model and actress, one of Warhol's superstars

Afraid

Albert Einstein photo

“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Found anonymously in newspaper columns from the early 1920s http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/12/31/kiss. Originally presented in dialogue format https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5219841/safety_first/: "Dorcas—”Do you ever allow a man to kiss you when you’re out motoring with him? Philippa—"Never, if a man can drive safely while kissing me he’s not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
It does not seem to have been attributed to Einstein until the 1990s (e.g. here https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.freemasonry/YILn0A-U_WM/f1Grm2akU-4J).
Misattributed

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh photo

“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.”

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II

On marriage, as quoted in "48 of Prince Philip's greatest gaffes and funny moments" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/04/48-prince-philips-greatest-gaffes-funny-moments/, The Telegraph (2 August 2017)

Helen Rowland photo

“Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.”

Helen Rowland (1875–1950) American journalist

Syncopations
A Guide to Men (1922)

Walt Disney photo

“Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.”

Walt Disney (1901–1966) American film producer and businessman

Misattributed

Martial photo

“Life is not living, but living in health.”
Vita non est vivere, sed valera vita est.

VI, 70.
Variant translations:
It is not life to live, but to be well.
Life's not just being alive, but being well.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)

Edie Brickell photo

“What I am is what I am. Are you what you are — or what?”

Edie Brickell (1966) singer from the United States

"What I Am"
Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love

“But the next time… IT WILL BE BY FIRE!”

Jack T. Chick (1924–2016) Christian comics writer

Chick tracts, " There Go The Dinosaurs https://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1038/1038_01.asp" (2007)
Context: Those dinosaurs that were in the ark were "fruitful and multiplied" like other animals. But now the dinosaurs had a big problem... THE AIR HAD CHANGED! Remember those trillions of destroyed plants? They made the air rich with oxygen. And big animals need lots of it to survive. In the thinner air it was harder to breathe - they got slower and easier to catch. Now you know how the dinosaurs really died. Because of sin, the Lord destroyed the earth by water. But the next time... IT WILL BE BY FIRE!

Johannes Grenzfurthner photo

“It's not working from home, it's living at work.”

Johannes Grenzfurthner (1975) Austrian artist, writer, curator, and theatre and film director

via FB https://www.facebook.com/grenzfurthner/posts/10158773667254610

Samuel Richardson photo
Edward Everett Hale photo
Prevale photo

“I live with you. I live for you. I live in you.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Vivo con te. Vivo per te. Vivo di te.
Source: prevale.net