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.
You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.
The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Wit and valour are qualities that are more easily ascertained than virtue, or the love of wisdom.
To make a happy fireside clime
To weans and wife,—
That is the true pathos and sublime
Of human life.