There's a lot of things to consider when it comes to preparing a wedding speech for your friend or family member's special day. Will you make it funny? What do you open with? Should you take a sentimental route? There are so many directions you can go with writing a speech!

For those wanting to tug at the heartstrings, a bit of sweet advice for the happy couple can make for a great addition and make a memorable speech. To make things a tad easier, we've compiled 25 of our favourite famous marriage advice quotes for wedding speeches to help you do just that!

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Famous Marriage Advice Quotes

1. “When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all." - Lois McMaster Bujold

2. “In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage." - Robert Anderson

3. “Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." - Oscar Wilde

4. "Is the love good?" "Is the silence good?" - Pavarotti

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5. “The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.” - Julia Child

6. “Marriage is a risk; I think it’s a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.” - Cate Blanchett

7. “What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life- to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”- George Eliot

8. “To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.” - Robert Brault

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9. "The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership." - Helen Mirren

10. “A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” - Ruth Bell Graham

11. “To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.” - Mark Twain

12. “The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. A mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.” - Fawn Weaver

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13. "Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery." - Erma Bombeck

14. "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." - Mignon McLaughlin

15. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage."- Lao Tzu

16. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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17. "Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day." - Barbara De Angelis

18. “A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.” - Dave Meurer

19. “A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.” - Pearl S. Buck

20. “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” - Ursula K. LeGuin, The Lathe of Heaven

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21. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” - Audrey Hepburn

22. “Where there is love there is life.” - Mahatma Gandhi

23. “You don't marry the person you can live with—you marry the person you can't live without.” - Unknown

24. “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

25. "May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.” - Rumi

Looking for more ideas on how to write a great wedding speech? Check out our ultimate groom's wedding speech checklist or 30 funny opening lines for wedding speeches.