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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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Once you experience love, I'm persuaded
you'll know what I'm on about in my verses.

Luís de Camões Landeg White in The Collected Lyric Poems of Luis de Camoes (2016)

Two men as two women and as a man and a woman can have a loving relationship and make a commitment. And that's what marriage is about.

John Barrowman

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

Love — this is the essence of life. But you will not give your life to another.

Ruslana Korshunova

There is not one judgment day, surely, but a thousand! Every time we confront beauty, truth, goodness or love, our response to them judges us.

Leslie Weatherhead The Christian Agnostic (1965)

I don't think you should have sex with anyone unless you love them... I think you should just wait for the person you're...in love with.

Justin Bieber

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap and then you grow wings.

William Sloane Coffin Credo (2004)

“Well, isn’t that what fathers do?” He had no idea what fathers did. “Love you, even if you don’t love them? Miss you when you go away?”

N. K. Jemisin The Kingdom of Gods (2011)

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous.

Helmut Newton Photo (2005)

You simply can’t throw strangers together at random and expect the fiery, quick romance to turn into love. Love has its own rules and enforces them rigidly.

Robert Sheckley Notions: Unlimited (1960)

All of my love letters are nothing more than the realization of my need to make phrases.

Florbela Espanca

God is the only lover and He loves in different forms - parents, husband, wife, friend, children, animals. All are His forms and He, Himself, has no form.

Baba Hari Dass Silence Speaks, from the chalkboard of Baba Hari Dass (1977)

Yet will the loved one’s gentle smile suffice
To ope the door of Paradise,
And turn to joy our dark and cruel lot.

Francesco Maria Molza

He couldn’t handle what it meant to have somebody in love with you. Running away was the only thing he knew how to do.

Glen Cook The Silver Spike (1989)

And I love what money does to you humans. It’s the only thing that saves you from being totally tedious.

Glen Cook Sweet Silver Blues (1987)

All women love the man who appeals to their maternity. Rudy does that instinctively and it is devastating in its effects on feminine resistance.

Natacha Rambova Photoplay: "Wedded and Parted (1922)

I shall always love the Mexican people for what the happiness they gave us that day. There was nothing that was too much for them to do.

Natacha Rambova Rudolph Valentino: A Wife's Memories of an Icon (2009)

I just always loved Yeats, him as a human. He was so passionate and just wrote what he felt.

Dolores O'Riordan

What matters is not what you paint but what your hand dances. The painting is only a notation of the dance of the hand, of the gesture of love.

John Diamond Stillpoints: An Introductory Guide to Haiku Painting (2008)

Being able to love others is a form of blessing. Being able to understand others is a form of wisdom.

Jun Hong Lu

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