It is difficult at once to relinquish a long-cherished love.
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.
Majesty and love do not well agree, nor do they live together.
In the hour's short space comes swift death, or joyful victory.
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
Tonight, may I get so drunk in love that
I do not see any dreams!
Dear, as the light that visits these sad eyes;
Dear, as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.
Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.
Our way is where God knows
And Love knows where:
We are in Love's hand to-day.
And every shepherd tells his tale
Under the hawthorn in the dale.