Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps;
Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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.
I loved too much and by such and such is happiness thrown away.
Suppose we try to locate the cause of disorder, we shall find it lies in the want of mutual love.
Marriage is God's way of making sure there are only a few great men.
Is love merely a cog in the wheel of the illusion of our species' procreation?
To dream on occasion is not dreaming; to love on occasion is not love.
It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.
What I believe, what the Labor Party believes, is that marriage is between a man and a woman.
I'll be this abject thing no more,
Love, give me back my heart again.
Love your Country next to God, your honor, and most of all yourself.
If a woman does not get love in her life, it is better for her to die.
She calls it marriage now; such name
She chooses to conceal her shame.
Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired.