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.
Men are taught virtue and a love of independence by living in the country.
Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.
The only people who love a war are those who have never fought in one.
Christ wanted love to be called his single commandment. This we owe to all men. Nobody is excepted.
It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, you know, knowing you are loved and wanted.
Driven raving mad by love—and he a man who had been always esteemed for his great prudence.