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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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If you wish women to love you, be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter, and women fell in love with him.

Anton Chekhov Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

When love's the culmination
of everything you feel
then it's the only thing that's precious
it's the only thing that's real

Kim Wilde Close (1988)

The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset — that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

I just came to say goodbye love, goodbye love, goodbye.

Jonathan Larson Rent (1996)

I do not need your loving words
or hurried kiss
as night comes down
in the place where we once lived
innocent as children,
and happier.

Anna Akhmatova Red Winged Birds (1917)

As human beings, we have the responsibility to harness the immense human potential for good, not evil; for love, not hatred; and for peace, not war.

Newton Lee

The flower and fruit of love are mine
The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole

Stevie Smith Selected Poems (1962)

This is not about hating homosexuals. I don't. I love homosexuals.

Michele Bachmann

I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.

Billy Childish

I'm shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I'm fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious.

Leonardo DiCaprio

This much is certain: you can have anything in life except a wife to call you "her man." And till now all your life was based on that hope.

Cesare Pavese This Business of Living (1935)

For Guido Farinaro, USMC. These are yours — not mine! With love and respect, your platoon leader. Pete Pace.

Peter Pace

Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.

Ralph Ellison Invisible Man (1952)

They say that bears
Have love affairs
And even camels,
We're merely mammals
Let's misbehave.

Cole Porter Paris (1928)

Leader Abdullah Öcalan
"I remain committed, until the end, to the struggle for liberation and to the beauty and love it creates."

Abdullah Öcalan

Leader Abdullah Öcalan
"Capitalist modernity is a system based on the denial of love."

Abdullah Öcalan

Offered with love to all the people of the world who love the Qur’an

Robert Spencer The Critical Quran (2021)

Love is no true-made looking-glass
Which perfect yields the shape we bring;
It ugly shows us all that was,
And flatters every future thing.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Caelica (1633)

One may be pardoned, yes I know
one may, for love for love, undying (Ephesians 6:24)

Marianne Moore

Impossible to love
Is all that I know how to be
But in my heart
I keep repeating
You didn't mean to hate me I still love my enemy.

Juliana Hatfield In Exile Deo (2004)

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