There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.
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.
Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.
Yes, it is a painful lot to be a poet and to love both God and man by the farthest northern seas!
It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.
God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
The more you loved your God the more deep and pure and true would be your love to me.
It is a woman's nature to be constant — to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever.
Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.
Superior to all the religions is the Love of God and superior to all types of worship is seeing God.
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love—every man works his oar voluntarily!
Love no more is made
By the fireside, but in the cooler shade.
It is when one is alone that one begins to observe Nature and to love her.