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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.

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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.

Thích Nhất Hạnh Touching Peace (1992)

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Henri Bergson Creative Evolution (1907)

It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.

John Galsworthy A Bit O' Love (1915)

No plan of battle survives contact with the enemy, and time is the ultimate opponent.

Charles Stross Rule 34 (2011)

There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.

Paul Bourget Cosmopolis (1892)

However important it is that love shall precede marriage, it is far more important that it shall continue after marriage.

Samson Raphael Hirsch

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

John Leonard Private Lives in the Imperial City (1979)

Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart.

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)

Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas La Seconde Semaine (1584)

There is an evening twilight of the heart,
When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.

Fitz-Greene Halleck

How much the wife is dearer than the bride.

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton Poetical Works (1801)

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, "tell the truth." If I got three more words, I'd add: "All the time."

Randy Pausch The Last Lecture (2008)

Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.

Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain (1964)

Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven,
Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.

William Jones

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

Muriel Rukeyser The Life of Poetry (1949)

The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.

Len Deighton

I have often had occasion to observe, that a warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.

Richard Cecil Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Time is the bridge that always burns behind us.

Poul Anderson

With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.

Thomas Chalmers Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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