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.
Only God, my dear,
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.
Exuberance to me early meant ecstacy of love, the poetic principle of life.
Friendship, 'tis said, is love without his wings,
And friendship, sir, is sweet enough for me.
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
We are told “God so loved the world” that he is going to damn almost everybody.
There is not so much virginity in the world that one can afford not to love when one finds it.
The sort of guardian you can hire is worth about as much as the sort of wife you can buy.
Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.