“Love cannot be owed,” said the retreating shadow. “It can only be given.”
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.
There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
It was said that I refused to grant any value to the maternal instinct and to love. This was not so.
The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.
Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
If you want to happy for the rest of your life, make a crack-whore your wife.
Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.
Orlando, driven raving mad by love—and he a man who had been always esteemed for his great prudence.
Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.
Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.