I hope everyone who reads, who cares, who feels, who loves – everybody.
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.
We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.
If I can do it
By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,
She shall not long continue love to him.
The dimples in
Her cheeks and chin
Are snares which Love hath set,
And I have fallen in!
Lycoris has buried all the female friends she had, Fabianus: would she were the friend of my wife!
The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,
Reigns more or less, and glows, in ev'ry heart.
I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honor more.
That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry
Half my love with him, half my care and duty.
Her necke like to a stately towre,
Where Love himselfe imprisoned lies.
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
I wish luck to you and your nation that loves you as the election results we can see testify.