What a man sees, Love can make invisible—and what is invisible, that can Love make him see.
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.
You are my fav'rite star,
My haven in heaven above,
You are ev'rything I love.
Gather the rose of love, while yet thou mayest,
Loving, be loved; embracing, be embraced.
At your time of life, it's love that rules the roast: at mine, it's solid, serviceable gold.
I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.
I sacrifice my power on the altar of your love
that it may be born again on another world.
I keep thinking what happens when the power of love is twisted into the love of power.
This is the way of peace — overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
Let those love now who never loved before;
Let those who always loved, now love the more.
By far the worst pain
Is not to understand
Why without love or hate
My heart's full of pain.
There never has been a time when I did not fall in love with one or two in a single day.
He who does not love a flower, has lost all love and fear of God.
That which they call love, it is nothing except the pain of longing.
He who has a good woman's love is ashamed of every ill deed.