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.
Remember this too: all bad writers are in love with the epic.
If in his study he hath so much care
To hang all old strange things, let his wife beware.
The old land is still the true love, the others are but pleasant infidelities.
The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.
Love, a tacit agreement between two unhappy parties to overestimate each other.
Like blood, like good, and like agen make the happiest marriage.
If you’re an engineer, and you’re not very bright, it’s easy to love polychlorinated biphenyls.
"Tough love" is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.
The rhetoric of hate is often most effective when couched in the idiom of love.
Awaken your heart to kindness and mercy for the people and love and tenderness for them.