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.
Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
Nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history.
The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.
Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat... between the law of love and the law of hate.
Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable.
Love the world. Otherwise, you will be forced to carry the heaviest load: your own bitter self.
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Until this moment, Senator, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.
If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.
Dost thou love life? then do not squander time; for that is the stuff life is made of.
If one does not possess what one loves, one should love what one has.