Anniversary Quotes
There is no anniversary collection behind this page. It is put together from the pages on love, marriage, romance and time, then sorted by quality, so what comes up first is whatever those four pages rate highest.
Expect poems and passages from novels more than card lines. Some of the best material here only works with the sentences around it, which is why each quote links to its own page with the source and the notes. If you plan to put one in print, check the flag first: a line marked misattributed is fine to enjoy and risky to credit.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Marriage is a duel to the death, which no man of honour should decline.
Perfect love casteth out fear, the Bible says; but, to speak it reverently, so does perfect hate.
In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.
A woman despises a man for loving her, unless she happens to return his love.
Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.
There comes some time an end to all things, to the good and to the bad.
God's love claims him whose heart is reduced to ashes for Him.
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.