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.
God is love, the bishops tell.
Yes, I know, But love is hell.
Girls bored me — they still do. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
O happy race of mortals,
if your hearts are ruled
as is the universe, by Love!
I love to see two truths at the same time. Every good comparison gives the mind this advantage.
The dove loves even when it attacks; the wolf hates even when it flatters.
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
Without hatred where's the light?
Without darkness where's the love?
I love for the sake of what I have loved, and what I have loved I would not go back to loving.