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.
Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.
Banish that fear; my flame can never waste,
For love sincere refines upon the taste.
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.
Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife;
A bad, the bitterest curse of human life.
Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.