Mother, here is Thy knowledge and here is Thy ignorance. Take them both, and give me only pure love.
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.
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
It is a miserable thing to love where one hates; and yet it is not inconsistent.
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
Know thou that the love of thyself is more hurtful to thee than anything in the world.
Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.