Wedding Quotations

Wedding Quotations: jokes can be a touchy subject (see wedding jokes ). One or two, to interject humour into a speech are acceptable if delivered in the correct context, not offensive, or are not personal. They can be hilarious and you will receive applause, or you will fall foul and receive stony silence. To avoid the latter, your common sense should prevail, always airing on the side of cautiousness and sensitivity, and if in doubt leave out! So, stick with the less risky (?) wedding quotations.

Here are some for your consideration. Remember it is permissible to embarrass the groom, but never the bride, and never refer to the bride’s mother in anything but a glowing light!!!

Wedding Quotations: About Marriage

- “Groucho Marx”: “Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?”
- “Robert Louis Stephenson”: “Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.”
- “William Congreve”: “Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.”
- “Samuel Butler”: “For in what stupid age or nation, Was marriage ever out of fashion?”
- “Artemus Ward”: “He’s the most married man I ever saw.”
- “Byron”: “And both were young, and one was beautiful.”
- “Robert Burns”: “But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love for ever.”
- “Oscar Wilde”: “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”
- “John Osborne”: “Don’t clap too hard – it’s a very old building.”

Wedding Quotations: About Husband And Wives

- “Socrates”: “By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy – and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.”
- “G. K. Chesterton”: “Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses.”
- “Groucho Marx”: “Any man who says he can see through women is missing a lot.”
- “Elbert Hubbard”: “There are six requisites in every happy marriage. The first is Faith and the remaining five are Confidence.”
- “Ogden Nash”: “All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.”
- “N. P. Willis”: “A husband’s last words are always, ‘OK, buy it’!”
- “Booth Tarkington”: “An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.”
- “Oscar Wilds”: “The man who says his wife can’t take a joke, forgets that she took him.”
- “Alexander Pope”: “Apologise to a man if you’re wrong, but to a woman even if you’re right.”
- “Anon”: “Women have their faults, Men have only two: Everything they say, Everything they do.”

Wedding Jokes: To Conclude

When making a speech, or toast, remember the words of “James Roosevelt”: “My father gave me these hints on speechmaking: be sincere, be brief, be seated.”