Quotes for a wedding toast or speech

Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be—and whenever I look up there will be you.

Drink to me only with thine eyes,And I will pledge with mine;Or leave a kiss but in the cupAnd I’ll not look for wine.The thirst that from the soul doth riseDoth ask a drink divine;But might I of Jove’s nectar sup,I would not change for thine.

All mankind love a lover.

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but no one with such justice.

The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one’s own sake—let us say rather, loved in spite of one’s self

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am.

Each time you happen to me all over again.

John Anderson, my jo, John,When we were first acquent;Your locks were like the raven,Your bonie brow was brent;But now your brow is beld, John,Your locks are like the snaw;But blessings on your frosty pow,John Anderson, my jo.

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and ThouBeside me singing in the Wilderness—Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,And never brought to mind?Should auld acquaintance be forgot,And auld lang syne!Chorus.—For auld lang syne, my dear,For auld lang syne.We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,For auld lang syne.

You don’t seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.

For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

Housekeeping ain’t no joke.

Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,I will be brief.

“Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”