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 am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defence of it.
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
Love calls to war;
Sighs his alarms,
Lips his swords are,
The field his arms.
I would love to be close, like buy the house down the street.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death,
And frustrate hope severer than despair.
There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
Marriages are arranged in heaven but the bills must be paid here on earth.
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.