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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.

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That's the nature of women ... not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Miguel de Cervantes El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)

O ! the heart has all too many tears ;
But none are like those that wait
On the blighted love, the loneliness
Of the young orphan's fate.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon The Golden Violet (1827)

All over the world with thee, my love !
All over the world with thee ;
I care not what sky may low'r above,
Or how dark our path may be.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

And is there care in Heaven? And is there love
In heavenly spirits to these Creatures bace?

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

It isn't necessary to be socialists in order to love Pertini. Whatever he says or does, smells of cleanliness, of loyalty and of sincerity.

Indro Montanelli

He shall appear suddenly and blissfully to all that love Him.

Julian of Norwich

Ever the more clearly that the soul seeth this Blissful Cheer by grace of loving, the more it longeth to see it in fulness.

Julian of Norwich

And the cause why we are travailed with them is for lack in knowing of Love.

Julian of Norwich

"Come on girls! Do you believe in love? Cause I got something to say about it."

Madonna

Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel?

Jim Morrison Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone (1981)

While I loved being first lady, my eight years with that title were the most difficult years of my life.

Nancy Reagan My Turn (1989)

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making it a sin.

Anatole France

Love for him, for the human body, was extremely humanitarian an interest and had more educational power than the whole teaching skills of the world!

Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain (1924)

Stacey puts a little love in each pasta shell. But it’s self-love, so it won’t help you that much.

Scott Adams

We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth.

Kahlil Gibran Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)

I speak of love for souls, of tender love for God, words pass through my words [sic, lips], and I long with a deep longing to believe in them!

Mother Teresa

To mate a youth with a young wife is ill;
Seeing a man's strength lasteth, while the bloom
Of beauty quickly leaves a woman's form.

Euripides

Once men were afraid of women with ideas and a desire to vote. Today, our best suffragists are sought in marriage by the best class of men.

Susan B. Anthony

The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins.

Jimmy Carter Presidency (1977)

No, I did not decide I was in love with him, after all. Enough men had had me by then that I was not inclined to mistake a hearty orgasm for eternal love.

Robert A. Heinlein To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987)

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