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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Most quoted on anniversary:

Love, then, hath every bliss in store;
'Tis friendship, and 'tis something more.
Each other every wish they give;
Not to know love is not to live.

John Gay Fables (1727)

Maybe the heart is part of the mist.
And that's all that there is or could ever exist.

Paul Simon

The gods throw the dice, and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

Paulo Coelho By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)

The present moment
contains past and future.
The secret of transformation,
is in the way we handle this very moment.

Thích Nhất Hạnh Understanding Our Mind (2006)

Life is not hurrying
on to a receding future, nor hankering after
an imagined past. It is the turning
aside like Moses to the miracle
of the lit bush, to a brightness
that seemed as transitory as your youth
once, but is the eternity that awaits you.

R. S. Thomas Laboratories of the Spirit (1975)