Wedding Toast Tips: 30 Inspiring Quotes

Jump start your toast with an eloquent and moving reflection on marriage, love, or soul-binding. Need inspiration? Here are 30 quotes to ponder -- integrate the words into your own original speech ("As Shakespeare said..."; "In the words of the poet Nikki Giovanni..."), relating them to bride and groom. The idea is to get the crowd to feel the universal significance and emotional impact of the words. 1. May your love be like the misty rain, gentle coming in but flooding the river. -- Traditional African 2. Insomuch as love grows in you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. -- St. Augustine 3. We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in full glow of love for others. -- Walter Rauschenbusch 4. To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu 5. Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery 6. One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. -- Sophocles 7. Night and day you are the one, Only you beneath the moon and under the sun. -- Cole Porter 8. At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. -- Plato 9. Love is a fire that feeds our life. -- Pablo Neruda 10. Love is friendship set to music. -- Anonymous 11. Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity. -- Kahlil Gibran 12. The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung. -- Walt Whitman 13. We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. -- Gwendolyn Brooks 14. In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

-- Marc Chagall 15. We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni 16. We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. -- John Keating, in Dead Poets Society (1989) 17. They do not love that do not show their love. --William Shakespeare 18. When people care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul. -- Langston Hughes 19. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. -- Emily Bronte 20. That love is all there is Is all we know of love. -- Emily Dickinson 21. A great flame follows a little spark. -- Dante Alighieri 22. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. -- George Sand 23. Without love, the world itself would not survive. -- Lope de Vega 24. When love reigns, the impossible may be attained. -- Indian proverb 25. Love is life. -- Leo Tolstoy 26. Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. -- Voltaire 27. Love is a moment that lasts forever. -- Anonymous 28. Love is all you need. -- John Lennon/Paul McCartney 29. A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. -- Rainer Maria Rilke 30. May your dreams ride on the wings of angels who know their way home to the skies. -- Anonymous

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