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.
And where may hide what came and loved our clay? as the Poet asked finely.
Could we forbear dispute, and practice love,
We should agree as angels do above.
There is no such thing as love at first sight, Bryan. There’s only sex at first sight.
Marriage, well. I think of it as a marvellous thing for other people, like going to the stake.
Accelerometrics is a cool new discipline. Newton and Galileo would love it.
I am Arnaut who love the wind,
And chase the hare with the ox,
And swim against the torrent.
My sins, my wild loves, and Fate herself
have all conspired against me.