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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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To bed my Love; Hymen will punish us
For being slack performers of his rites.

Beaumont and Fletcher

We gypsies need only air and love.

Victor Hugo Notre-Dame de Paris (1831)

I miss being the commander in chief, and that's an easy question to answer. I love our military.

George W. Bush Interview on Today (2010)

Greece had to lose, her pure consciousness
had to make our agony only more acute. We needed God loving us in our weakness
and not in the glory of beatitude.

Czesław Miłosz Uncollected Poems (1954)

I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.

Grace Slick The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987)

Hail Guest! We ask not what thou art:
If Friend, we greet thee, hand and heart;
If Stranger, such no longer be;
If Foe, our love shall conquer thee.

Arthur Guiterman The Mirthful Lyre (1918)

We are not ready to fight because we love fighting. We are ready to fight because we are worth fighting for.

Zoé Samudzi

Come, let us go forth to the mead,
Let us see how the primroses spring;
We'll lodge in some village on Tweed,
And love, where the feathered folks sing.

Vincent Bourne

I am not at all surprised that the passion has been declared an excess. And indeed it is an excess of love of Jesus Christ.

Claude La Colombière

How much do I love that noble man
More than I could tell with words
I fear though he'll remain alone
With a holy halo of his own.

Albert Einstein Poem by Einstein on Spinoza (1920)

I'm going on believing and knowing that God is alive. You see, as long as love is around, God is alive. As long as justice is around, God is alive.

Martin Luther King Jr. Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool (1967)

While loving glory so much how can you persist in a plan which will cause you to lose it?

Voltaire

Though you're a whole world, Rome, still, without Love,
The world isn't the world, and Rome can't be Rome.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Roman Elegies (1789)

When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.

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

I LOVED her! ay, I would have given
A death-bed certainty of heaven
If I had thought it could confer
The least of happiness on her!

Letitia Elizabeth Landon The Troubadour (1825)

And all o'er heaven is that clear blue
The stars so love to wander through.
They're rising from the silent deep,
Like bright eyes opening after sleep.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

Ah! love and song are but a dream,
A flower's faint shade on life's dark stream.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

The prayer is the standard of Islam. Whosoever loves prayers, and observes their limits, timings and methods, is a true believer.

Muhammad

Who has not found the heaven below
Will fail of it above.
God's residence is next to mine,
His furniture is love.

Emily Dickinson

If the man of power were to take a message of absolute honesty and absolute love seriously he would lose his power, or would divest himself of it.

Reinhold Niebuhr Christianity and Power Politics (1936)

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