Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Guy Chat Tuesdays: Quotes for Best Man Speeches

We've searched high and low for quotes that will fit any type of speech. Hopefully, we've made your job a little easier, but remember, in the end, your toasts should come from the heart!

HUMOROUS
Love is blind, marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason

It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
--Anonymous

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner

Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash

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

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
--Michel de Montaigne

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx

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

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


ROMANTIC
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day, knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.
-- Ronald Reagan

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
-- Erich Fromm

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.
--Rabindranath Tagore

Love is the lifespring 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

You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
--David Levesque

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

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
--Timothy Titcomb, J. G. Holland

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is Eternity.
-- Kahlil Gibran

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.  
-- French Proverb

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

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
-- Victor Borge


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

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
-- Rabbi H. Schachtel

Any fool can have a trophy wife. It takes a real man to have a trophy marriage.
--Diane Sollee

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

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
--Allan K. Chalmers

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

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

The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
-- Sir Harold George Nicolson

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

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