For you to love something, you must have seen and heard it for a long time, you idiots.
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.
I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold.
Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.
A mastiff dog
May love a puppy cur for no more reason
Than that the twain have been tied up together.
There's some are fou o' love divine;
There's some are fou o' brandy.
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man.
Before, beside us, and above
The firefly lights his lamp of love.
This principle is old, but true as fate,—
Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
We love in others what we lack ourselves,
And would be every thing but what we are.