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.
I always wanted a beautiful loving wife and she always wanted to be a citizen.
We loved, sir — used to meet:
How sad and bad and mad it was —
But then, how it was sweet!
And dare love that, and say so too,
And forget the He and She.
I long to talk with some old lover's ghost,
Who died before the god of love was born.
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.