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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.

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Most quoted on anniversary:

Nae man can tether time or tide.

Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter (1790)

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.

Thomas Fuller The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.

Alan Watts The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

Louisa May Alcott Little Women (1868)

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

Sigmund Freud

It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive manifestations of their aggressiveness.

Sigmund Freud Civilization and Its Discontents (1929)

'Cause grace and virtue are within
Prohibited degrees of kin;
And therefore no true saint allows
They shall be suffer'd to espouse.

Samuel Butler Part III (1678)

When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left!

Paulo Coelho Eleven Minutes (2003)

To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.

Petrarch

Oh, how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring!

Colley Cibber

A contract executed without any part performance.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux R. v. Millis (1844)

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

George Crabbe Tales in Verse (1812)

For the sake of research,
the big picture
and definitive conclusions,
one would have to transcend time,
in which everything scurries and whirls.

Wisława Szymborska Poems New and Collected (1998)

Time softly there
Laughs through the abyss of radiance with the gods.

William Vaughn Moody The Fire-Bringer (1904)

Love is something that never cared to learn how to judge anybody.

Sri Chinmoy Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)

Instead of creating a reason why you cannot love the world, try to create a reason why you should and must love the world.

Sri Chinmoy Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)

Now, as to universal love and mutual aid, they are beneficial and easy beyond a doubt. It seems to me that the only trouble is that there is no superior who encourages it.

Mozi

Oh seize the instant time; you never will
With waters once passed by impel the mill.

Richard Chenevix Trench

The husband is not liable for the criminal conduct of his wife.

John Eardley Wilmot Lockwood v. Coysgarne (1764)

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