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.
My true love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange, one for the other given.
You say to me-wards your affection's strong;
Pray love me little, so you love me long.
I loved you ere I knew you: know you now,
And, having known you, love you better still.
Alas! the love of women! it is known
To be a lovely and a fearful thing!
The garlands fade, the vows are worn away;
So dies her love, and so my hopes decay.
The "good old times" — all times when old are good —
Are gone.
But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?
Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but himself
That hideous sight,—a naked human heart.