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.
True love is like the appearance of ghosts: everyone talks about it but few have seen it.
Jealousy is always born with love but does not always die with it.
By force you have held it; by force you are holding it; by love we ask you to hold it.
They didna speak, but they just gave one another a look, and I saw the love-light in their een.
Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.
When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
If, instead of seeing faults in others we look within ourselves we are loving God.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
Love only enters as a native there,
For born in heav'n, it does but sojourn here.
He that alone would wise and mighty be,
Commands that others love as well as he.
If we love mankind, pity them, we even wish to suffer for them.
My personal belief is that marriage is between one man and one woman, for life.