In all of the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of plums.
- Douglas Jerrold
Marriage--a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.
- Beverly Nichols
Marriage is the mother of the world and preserves kingdoms, and fills cities, and churches, and heaven itself.
- Dr. Jeremy Taylor
There are three things that last: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love.
- I Corinthians 13:13
Honor, riches, marriage-blessing
Long continuance, and increasing,
Hourly joys be still upon you!
- William Shakespeare
You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore....but let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. - Kahlil Gibran
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 von Goethe
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
Marriage is ever made by destiny.
- George Chapman
Two human loves make one divine.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.
- Dean Stanley
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
- W.B. Yeats
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.
- Old English Rhyme
Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. - Ralph Waldo Emerson




















