Famous Quotes

"When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms."

Mary Oliver on Wedding

More quotes about Wedding

• "The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife."

  Barbara de Angelis on Wedding

• "My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher."

  Socrates on Wedding

• "It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married."

  Robert Frost on Wedding

• "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury."

  Groucho Marx on Wedding

• "Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."

  Oliver Wendell Holmes on Wedding

More quotes by Mary Oliver

• "I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded."

• "When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms."

• "We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up."

• "To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go."

• "It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone."