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's of itself too sweet; the best of all
Is, when love's honey has a dash of gall.
Let moderation on thy passions wait;
Who loves too much, too much the lov'd will hate.
To set the cause above renown,
To love the game above the prize.
To love and be beloved, this is the good,
Which for most sovereign all the world will prove.
But beauty has wings, and too hastily flies,
And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.
Ah, better to love in the lowliest cot
Than pine in a palace alone.