Quotations
Wedding Quotations
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
- Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
- Author Unknown
My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key.
- Frederick Saunders
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
- Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524
My whole heart for my whole life.
- French saying used on poesy rings
In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced.
- Robert Sexton
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
True love stories never have endings.
- Richard Bach
If two stand shoulder to shoulder against the gods,
Happy together, the gods themselves are helpless
Against them while they stand so.
- Maxwell Anderson
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
- Stephen King
A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
- Author Unknown
Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee.
- English saying used on poesy rings
Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.
- Author Unknown
Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart.
- Author Unknown
Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. -Author Unknown
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
- Michael Leunig
Are we not like two volumes of one book?
- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.
- Author Unknown
If our two loves be one, or thou and I
Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die.
- John Donne
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. -Voltaire
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
- Natalie Clifford Barney
Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes
When love is not madness, it is not love.
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
- Ovid
I love thee - I love thee,
'Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.
- Thomas Hood
For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
- Rosemonde Gerard
Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
- Zora Neale Hurston
A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn't put there to stay -
Love isn't love
'Til you give it away.
- Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
Two souls, one heart.
- French saying used on poesy rings
Love me and the world is mine.
- David Reed
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
- Victor Hugo
Quotations about Relationships
Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.
- Antoine de Saint-Exup'ry, Flight to Arras
Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.
- Margaret Mead
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
- Swedish Proverb
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough
There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
- Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
- Stephen Levine
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
- Leo Buscaglia
I like her because she smiles at me and means it.
- Anonymous
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
- Miles Franklin
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.
- Frederick Buechner
Present your family and friends with their eulogies now - they won't be able to hear how much you love them and appreciate them from inside the coffin.
- Anonymous
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you."
- A.A. Milne
I felt it shelter to speak to you.
- Emily Dickinson
Are we not like two volumes of one book?
- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.
- Dinah Shore
Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.
- Carl Reiner
Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.
- Hector Bianciotti, Sans La Misericorde du Christ
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust
No road is long with good company.
- Turkish Proverb
If fame were based on kindness instead of popularity, on understanding and not on worldwide attention, you would be the biggest celebrity on earth. And to my heart, you already are.
- Anonymous
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
Good company upon the road is the shortest cut.
- Author Unknown
Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.
- Author Unknown
People change and forget to tell each other.
- Lillian Hellman
In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.
- Linda Ellerbee, Move On: Adventures in the Real World
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
- Mary Tyler Moore
Quotations About Love
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
- Charles Morgan
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, "Outside the Dog Museum"
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
- Ovid
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
- Eric Fromm
Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
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 Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.
- Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exup'ry, Wind, Sand and Stars
When love is not madness, it is not love.
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.
- Malagasy Proverb
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, she is beautiful because you love her.
- Author Unknown
For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
- Rosemonde Gerard
Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate!
- Sandra J. Dykes
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
- Author Unknown
Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.
- Author Unknown
Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.
- Proverb
The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.
- Theodor Reik, Of Love and Lust
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
- Peter Ustinov
Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.
- Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
- William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595
The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.
- Albert Ellis
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
- Michael Leunig
Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde
Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.
- Henry David Thoreau
A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
- Frank A. Clark
Shall we compare our hearts to a garden -
with beautiful blooms, straggling weeds,
swooping birds and sunshine, rain -
and most importantly, seeds.
- Grey Livingston
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
- Robert Heinlein
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
- George Moore
We loved with a love that was more than love.
- Edgar Allan Poe
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
- William Shakespeare
