Quotes about Love and Marriage
A friend’s love says: If you ever need anything, I’ll be there. True Love says: You’ll never need anything, I’ll be there. - Jimi Hollemans
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. - Rainer Maria Rilke
A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short. --Andre Maurois
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. --Mistinguett
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. - Woodrow Wyatt (This would be great to precede poetry or song from the groom.)
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self-in the mirror of some woman's eyes. - Clare Boothe Luce
A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A successful marriage requires falling love many times, always with the same person. --Mignon McLaughlin
All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love. - Eleanor Farjeon
All you need is love. - John Lennon and Paul McCartney
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. - Leo Tolstoy
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. - W. H. Auden
An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. - John Wesley
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught. - Khalil Gibran in The Prophet
And think not, you can direct the course of love; for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. - Khalil Gibran
Any time that is not spent on love is wasted. - Torquato Tasso
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. - Plato
But there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream. --Moore
Came but for friendship, and took away love. --Thomas Moore
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means. - George Burns (Just kidding -- don't use this one.)
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong in How to Save Your Own Life
"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." --Judy Garland
For where thou art, there is the world itself, and where though art not, desolation - William Shakespeare in Henry VI
Give all to love; obey thy heart. - Emerson
Good night, sweet friend: thy love ne'er alter, till thy sweet life end - William Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein
Happiness is only in loving. – Tolstoy
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
He is not a lover who does not love forever. - Euripides
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heaven give you many, many merry days! - Shakespeare
Honor the ocean of love. --George de Benneville
I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss. - William Shakespeare in Henry VI
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. - Mother Teresa
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old . . . --Bayard Taylor
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. - Henry Ward Beecher
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. - Gilda Radner, Actress
If a thing loves, it is infinite. - William Blake
If I know what love is, it is because of you. - Hermann Hesse
If life has meaning to us at all, it possesses it because of love. It is that which enshrines and ennnobles our human experience. It is the basis for the peace of family and the peace of the peoples of the earth. the greatest gift bestowed upon humans is the gift not of demanding, but of giving love between two persons. ~ Martin Weitz
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. - Michel de Montaigne
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. - Robertson Davies one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible. - Osho
If you have it (love), you don’t need to have anything else. If you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you do have. --Sir James M. Barrie
If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever. - Doug Horton
In as much as love grows in you, so in you beauty grows. For loveis the beauty of the soul. - St. Augustine
In love we often doubt what we most believe. - La Rochefoucauld
Infatuation is when you think he’s as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen and as athletic as Jimmy Connors. Love is when you realize that he’s as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford – but you’ll take him anyway. --Judith Viorst
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. - Agnes Repplier
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. - Thomas Mann
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential to the eye. --Antoine St. Exupery from “The Little Prince”
It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving. - Richard Braunstein
I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found. - John Nash, in the movie A Beautiful Mind
Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. - William Shakespeare
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. - Benjamin Franklin
Life is a circle, love is what gilds it.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence. - Sydney Smith
Like a great poet, nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water and love. --Heine
Live like there’s no tomorrow. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like no one’s watching.
Look at time and distance as the essence of the understanding in realizing how price-less it is to have you. - Ronald Johnston
Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. - Sammy Cahn
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain - William Shakespeare in Venus & Adonis
Love conquers all; and let us submit to love. - Virgil
Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. --Dr. Karl Menninger
Love demands all, and has a right to all. - Beethoven
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Love does not dominate; it cultivates. - Goethe
Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. - Franklin Jones
Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless. - Thomas à Kempis, German monk and mystic
Love for thy love, and hand for hand I give - William Shakespeare in Henry VI
Love gives us in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort after years of toil. - Goethe
Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must. - Mother Teresa
Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest. - Eleanor Farjeon
Love has power to give in a moment what toil can scarcely reach in an age. --Goethe
Love in its truest form has not language or words, it just has a thousand and one actions we all wish we could describe. --Emery
Love is a faith, and one faith leads to another. --Amiel
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. - Mother Teresa
Love is a moment that lasts forever. --Julie Wittey
Love is a never ending feeling. --Adeil Prince
Love is a sign from the heavens that you are here for a reason. --J. Ghetto
Love is a word, what matters is the connection that word implies - The Matrix Revolutions
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. - Peter Ustinov, British actor
Love is an art like music. - Pierre Louÿs
Love is born of faith, lives on hope and dies of charity. --Unknown
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. - Alexander Smith
Love is friendship set on fire. --Jeremy Taylor
Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth... Love is like a lovely rose, the world's delight. - Christina Rossetti
Love is like the sun coming out of the clouds and warming your soul. --Unknown
Love is like π -- natural, irrational, and very important. ~ Lisa Hoffman (Good quote for an academic's wedding, I guess!)
Love is love's reward. - John Dryden
Love is more than a feeling, it’s a state of mind. --Lisa Grude
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter. - T.S. Eliot
Love is not blind – It sees more and not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. --Will Moss
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. - Bette Davis, actor
Love is not getting, but giving. - Henry van Dyke
Love is not some accident we fall into. Falling in love should be suspect. But if we GROW in love, then there is the possibility that our tomorrows will be even more joyous, more tender, and caressing, more devoted to life flowing through us: tomorrows more full of the thrill of life even as each day is better than yesterday. Love has the capacity for that magic. Perhaps only love has such capacity. - Source Unknown
Love is one song sung by two. - Garfield
Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived. ~ William Parrish from the movie, Meet Joe Black
Love is smiling on the inside and out. --Jennifer Williams
Love is something eternal . . . the aspect may change, but not the essense. --Vincent van Gogh
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. - C.S. Lewis
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart. --Lamartine
Love is the every, only God. - ee cummings
Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe. - W. E. Channing
Love is the most beautiful gift we are given to share. - Anonymous
Love is the only rational act. - Stephen Levine
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality - Victor Frankel
Love isn’t blind, it just only sees what matters. --William Curry
Love itself is a belief. - Ray H Wall
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind. - William Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Love me for love's sake, that evermore thou may'st love on, through love's eternity. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. - Guy de Maupassant
Love must have wings to fly away from love, and to fly back again. - Edwin Robinson
Love not what you are, but what you may become. - Miguel de Cervantes
Love reminds you that nothing else matters. --Amy Bushnell
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. - Mark Twain
Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better. - William Shakespeare in Twelfth Night
Love that is true, never grows old. --Elban Bano
Love that well which thou must leave ere long - William Shakespeare in Sonnet 73
Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle. --Middlemas
Love. What a small word we use for an idea so intense and powerful that it has altered the flow of history. Love is the ancient delirium, a desire older than civilization, with taproots stretching deep into dark and mysterious days. --Diane Ackerman from “The Natural History of Love”
Love: A term which has no meaning if defined. - John Ralston Saul in The Doubter's Companion
Love: the condition in which the welfare and happiness of another becomes essential to your own. - Robert Heinlein
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain - William Shakespeare in Venus and Adonis
Love's very pain is sweet. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. - Song of Songs 8:7
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this - when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and in high renown. – Homer
May you love as long as you live and live as long as you love. - Robert Heinlein
My heart is ever at your service. --William Shakespeare
My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it. I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment— upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses. - John Keats (Letters to Fanny)
Never frown because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile. --Unknown
No act of love is ever wasted. - Geneen Roth
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. - Bertrand Russell
Once a tear fell off my cheek and into the ocean, the day I find it will be the day I stop loving you. - Anonymous
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale. --Unknown
One does not love another if one does not accept anything from him. - Anonymous
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love. - Sophocles
Only the heart knows how to find what is precious. --Fyodor DostoyevskyA coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. - Mohandas Gandhi
Only through love can we obtain communion with God. - Albert Schweitzer
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. - Ken Kesey
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists. - Anita Brookner
Real love stories never have an ending. --Anonymous
So let me save you the suspense. You're not perfect, and she's not either. What matters is whether you're perfect for each other. - Good Will Hunting
So long as a man remains free, he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship. - Anonymous
Somewhere there’s someone who dreams of your smile, and finds in your presense that life is worthwhile. --K. Blackburn
Stay with me flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. - Song of Solomon 2:5
Sweet, above thought I love thee - William Shakespeare in Troilus & Cressida
Take away love, and our earth is a tomb. - Robert Browning
Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are. - Houssaye
That love is all there is, is all we know of love. - Emily Dickinson
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller
The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring." - Oscar Wilde
The course of true love never did run smooth. - William Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night's Dream (For a couple who has seen many challenges.)
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves. - Victor Hugo
The greatest pleasure is love. - William Temple
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. - Eden Ahbez
The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing. - Pascal
The laws of love are written in the heart of every human being by the hand of God. - Anonymous
The love we give away is the only love we keep. - Elbert Hubbard
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. - Vincent van Gogh
The more love is shared, the more quickly it grows.
The more you judge, the less you love. - Honore de Balzac (And the reverse is also true!)
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart. - J. G. Holland
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. - Anais Nin
The only victory over love is flight. - Napoléon Bonaparte
The success of love is in the loving— it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done. - Mother Teresa
The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness. - Kabir
The world is full of beauty when the heart is full of love. - W. L. Smith
The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great-quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it. - D. H. Lawrence, British author.
The world moves for love; it kneels before it in awe. - Edward Walker, in The Village
The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them. - Syrus Publilius
Then must you speak Of One that lov'd not wisely but too well. - William Shakespeare in Othello
There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love. - Lytton Strachey to Carrington
There is a miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. --Rainer Maria Rilke
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. - John 4:18
There is no remedy for love, but to love more. --Henry David Thoreau
There is nothing more painful than seeing someone you love loving someone else. But there is nothing more rewarding than seeing two people you love loving each other. - J.H. Li
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. --George Sand
They do not love that do not show their love - William Shakespeare in Two Gentlemen of Verona
This is the very ecstasy of love - William Shakespeare Hamlet
This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love. - Gerald Massey
Those who love deeply never grow old. - Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
To be loved, love. (Si vis amari, ama.) - Ovid
To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with. --Mark Twain
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten. --Unknown
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. --David Viscott
To love another person is to see the face of God. - Victor Hugo
To love a person is to learn the song in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten. -- Anonymous
To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us. - Baroness Orczy
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. --Bill Wilson
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. . . . When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. ~ Edmond de Goncourt
True love always involves a choice - Ray H Wall
True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, gazing on many truths... - Percy Bysshe Shelley
True love is rare, so when you find it don't let it go just because of a barrier you can't cross. - Ray H Wall
True love is the only heart disease that is best left to run on. - Mark Twain
True understanding is deeper in meaning than mere words, and is important for its result, not petty rhetoric. Those who can verbalize their happiness have little happiness to speak of. My love has grown so much that I can't tell even half of it in words. - Author Unknown
Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church. - William Phelps
Upon thy cheek I lay this zealous kiss, as seal to the indenture of my love - William Shakespeare in King John
We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive. Where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour, an afternoon. But that doesn’t diminish its value. Because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives. --“The Mirror Has Two Faces”
We are born for love. It is the principle of existence and its only end. - Benjamin Disraeli
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. – Goethe
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. --Agnest Kepplier
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
We love because it’s the only true adventure. --Nikki Giovanni
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together. --Brian Andres
We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly. - William Shakespeare in As You Like It
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. - Tom Robbins
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love. - Victor Hugo
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together- to strengthen each other in all labor, to minister to ech other in all sorrow, to share with each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent, unsporken memories? - George Eliot
What did my hands do before they held you? - Sylvia Plath
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. - Friedrich Nietzsche
When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew. --Unknown
When the evening of this life comes, we shall be judged on Love. - St. John of the Cross
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace. - Jimi Hendrix
When you depart from me sorrow abides, and happiness takes his leave - William Shakespeare in Much Ado About Nothing
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. -Mark Twain
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. --Elizabeth Bowen
When you realize that you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. --“When Harry Met Sally”
Whenever you're right shut up. - Ogden Nash, To Keep Your Marriage Brimming
Whenever you're wrong admit it; Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Where there is great love there are always miracles. --Willa Cather
Where there is love, there is life. --Gandhi
Where there is the greatest love, there are always miracles. - Willa Cather
Who being loved, is poor? --Oscar Wilde
With love and patience, nothing is impossible. - Daisaku Ikeda
Woman was created from the rib of man: Not from his head to be thought of only, nor from his hand to be owned, nor from his foot to be beneath, but from under his arm to be protected, from his side to be equal, and from his heart to be loved... - Author Unknown
You are what you love, not what loves you - Author Unknown
You don’t marry someone you can live with. You marry the person you cannot live without. --Unknown
You don't get to choose. You just fall. – Anonymous
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. - Jonathan Carroll
You will know the real meaning of love when you fall in love. --A. Terance Dinesh
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