Quote#God & Faith
To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in the church,…
Quote bySamuel Pepys · 1633–1703
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Diary, December 25, 1665.
English (original)
To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in the church, which I have not seen many a day; and the young people so merry one with another, and strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and woman gazing and smiling at them.
— Samuel Pepys
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