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.
What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water.
Girls we love for what they are;
Young men for what they promise to be.
O that it might remain eternally green,
The beautiful time of youthful love.
At lovers' perjuries Jove laughs and throws them idly to the winds.
Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Believe me, wise men don't say ‘I shall live to do that’, tomorrow's life is too late; live today.
Matrimony must be like a sound flogging, for it makes the veriest block-heads learn something.
It may be that in the future you will be helped by remembering the past.
Neither will the wave which has passed be called back; nor can the hour which has gone by return.
The chain of marriage is so heavy that it takes two to carry it—sometimes three.
Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.
A virtuous wife when she obeys her husband obtains the command over him.