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.
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.
The mightiest love was granted him
Love that does not expect to be loved.
Our love is principle, and has its root
In reason, is judicious, manly, free.
If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness
Maybe not, oh, but we can only try.
You may find many a brighter one
Than your own rose, but there are none
So true to thee, Love.
I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.
'Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all.
All-powerful Love! what changes canst thou cause
In human hearts, subjected to thy laws!
I think, am sure, a brother's love exceeds
All the world's loves in its unworldliness.
Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine,
Thou wilt not laugh at poets.
Thy fatal shafts unerring move;
I bow before thine altar, Love!
God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.
Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.
He briskly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time.