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.
No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.
It was good to be alive; it was better to be young; it was best of all to be in love.
If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see
That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me.
Each deceiver to his cost may find
That marriage frauds too oft are paid in kind.
Let such, such only tread this sacred floor,
Who dare to love their country and be poor.
Princes in this case
Do hate the traitor, though they love the treason.
When love could teach a monarch to be wise,
And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.
Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
He that loves thee, He that keeps
And guards thee, never slumbers, never sleeps.