25 Great Quotes for Wedding Toasts For The Men

Want to start your toast with a bang? Here is a collection of 25 quotes on love, marriage, and the union of two souls.


1. Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.


--Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary,” 1911


2. Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.


--Mae West


3. One word frees us all of the weight and pain of life: That word is love.


--Sophocles


4. Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.


--Pauline Thomason


5. I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.


--Rita Rudner


6. To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you are wrong, admit it; whenever you are right, shut up.


--Ogden Nash


7. A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.


--Nanette Newman


8. Politics doesn’t make for strange bedfellows, marriage does.


--Groucho Marx


9. The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.


--Iris Murdoch


10. Hatred paralyzes love; love releases it.


Hatred confuses love; love harmonizes it.


Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.


--Martin Luther King, Jr.


11. Immature love says: “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says: “I need you because I love you.”


--Erich Fromm


12. Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.


--Antoine de Saint-Exupery


13. A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.


--Anonymous


14. To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.


--Woody Allen


15. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.


--Victor Borge


16. Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.


--Rabbi H. Schachtel


17. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.


--Antoine de Saint-Exupery


18. Marriage is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is Eternity.


--Kahlil Gibran


19. Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.


--Barnett Brickner


20. There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.


--Martin Luther


21. A successful marriage requires falling love many times, always with the same person.


--Mignon McLaughlin


22. Marriage should be a duet--when one sings, the other claps.


--Joe Murray


23. The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.


--Sir Harold George Nicolson


24. Love is the life spring of our existence. The more love you give, the happier you feel and the more love you will have within you to give.


--Susan L. Taylor


25. Love one another, but make not a bond of love;


Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.


--Kahlil Gibran