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, as I hope you will find, has great power. Even death cannot destroy it.
"I don't like being famous. I love that I get to make music all the time."
"It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us."
We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.
"My mom used to tell me that whatever you do, marry someone who loves you more than you love him."
Love is a plant of the most tender kind,
That shrinks and shakes with ev'ry ruffling wind.
Love is a subject to himself alone,
And knows no other empire than his own.
Of all pains, the greatest pain
Is to love, and love in vain.
Marriage the happiest bond of love might be,
If hands were only join'd when hearts agree.
It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.
I can see the black spots of the sun [remark to Sonia Delaunay, his wife and female artist].