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 have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy.
No rest is to be found
But in Thy blessèd love;
O let my wish be crowned
And send it from above.
I don't know why
I love you like I do
I don't know why, but I do.
Oh, I suppose my wife and I will open a bottle of champagne with another couple.
The three eldest children of Necessity: God, the World and love.
Were Love exempt from the militations of Necessity, he were greater than God and the World.
Biting poverty and cruel Cupid are my foes. Hunger I can endure; love I cannot.
Love of the sacred implies love of God, and inversely, the sacred is the perfume of Heaven.
Look out upon the stars, my love,
And shame them with thine eyes.
The miracle of love comes to us in the presence of the uninterpreted moment.
Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.
"To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed."