No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
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.
Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours
Should not be numbered by years, daies, and hours.
Time was the enemy never to be conquered and there were no reserves to help stay the tide.
Time, like a flurry of wild rain,
Shall drift across the darkened pane!
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.
There is a tide in the affairs of women,
Which, taken at the flood, leads—God knows where.
Expectation postponed makes the heart sick, but a desire realized is a tree of life.