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.
An unloving heart can no more understand a love-filled speaker than a German an Italian.
The flute is the symbol of spiritual call, the call of divine love.
Ah, cruel 'tis to love,
And cruel not to love,
But cruelest of all
To love and love in vain.
Ultimate audacity: to want to love a person—to say nothing of one's neighbor!—as God loves him.
Love must give warmth and unfading color to every day of the dullest life.
By riverside are cooing
A pair of turtledoves;
A good young man is wooing
A maiden fair he loves.
My jealousy is a congenital illness, or maybe in loving him I have nothing else to love.
If you don’t love your fellow man, women, person, then you don’t have anything.