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.
Could we forbear dispute, and practise love,
We should agree as angels do above.
Love's like the flies, and, drawing-room or garret, goes all over a house.
Love leads to present rapture,—then to pain;
But all through Love in time is healed again.
Like Dian's kiss, unask'd, unsought,
Love gives itself, but is not bought.
It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods.
Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf,
And can be bought with nothing but with self.
While all the future, for thy purer soul,
With "sober certainties" of love is blest.
As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.
A people without history
Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern
Of timeless moments.
Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.