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.
Cowards are cruel, but the brave
Love mercy, and delight to save.
See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds,
With joy and love triumphing.
Such love
As to his only son, his well-beloved,
The heir to all his wealth, a father shows.
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
As self-neglecting.
Sang in tones of deep emotion,
Songs of love and songs of longing.
Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung
With feigning voice verses of feigning love.
Unkindness may do much;
And his unkindness may defeat my life,
But never taint my love.
O, then, what graces in my love do dwell,
That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!
O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence,
Love takes the meaning in love's conference.
Beauteous Night lay dead
Under the pall of twilight, and the love-star
sickened and shrank.
Most dangerous
Is that temptation that doth goad us on
To sin in loving virtue.
I love being a beautiful woman when I look at myself in the mirror.
But she—she heard the violin,
And left my side, and entered in:
Love passed into the house of lust.
He that is purified by Love is pure (Safi), and he who is purified by the Beloved in Sufi.