Quotes for a Wedding Toast by the Father of the Bride

For many fathers of the bride, a daughter’s wedding day is a bittersweet occasion. Happiness mingles with sadness at the reality that the little girl who once relied so heavily on her father  is now going out into the world as her own woman and as someone’s wife. A toast on this day marks both an ending and a beginning. Fathers of the bride  can share their love, their pride, and express their best wishes for their daughter’s life going forward. They may even want to impart some wisdom about what it means to be a loving husband and father and what it takes to make a marriage a success. Whether the goal is to be lighthearted and humorous, sentimental and serious, or a little of both, including a few of the following sentiments, will make the father of the bride toast just that more special. Father of the Bride Quotes John Gregory Brown: There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.  Enid Bagnold: A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.  Guy Lombardo: Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half, especially if he has a teenage daughter.Euripides: To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.Barbara Kingsolver: It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didnt.  Phyllis McGinley: These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish?  Goethe: There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.Mitch Albom: Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of themâ₠¬ ¦It is not until much later†¦that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.  H. Norman Wright: In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic, a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, an enabler rather than a reformer.  Tom Mullen: Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.Leo Tolstoy: What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.  Ogden Nash: To keep your marriage brimming with love†¦whenever you’re wrong; admit it. Whenever you’re right, shut up.  Friedrich Nietzsche: When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.