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.
Whan the sunne shinth make hay, whiche is to say,
Take time whan time comth, lest time steale away.
The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
Un conte sans amour est comme du boudin sans moutarde; c’est chose insipide.
You know, actually we have no love — that is a terrible thing to realize.
And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen,
The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
For the next inn he spurs amain,
In haste alights, and skuds away,
But time and tide for no man stay.
The end crowns all;
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
Freely we serve,
Because we freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have.