I love my running; I don’t think my life would be complete without it.
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.
Judges and senates have been bought for gold;
Esteem and love were never to be sold.
In argument
Similes are like songs in love:
They must describe; they nothing prove.
I hold it cowardice
To rest mistrustful where a noble heart
Hath pawn'd an open hand in sign of love.
We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.
A man can hide all things, excepting twain—
That he is drunk, and that he is in love.
Poor little foal of an oppressèd race!
I love the languid patience of thy face.
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess it always will. But I love it just the same.