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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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The more snuff Frederick took, the more memoirs he wrote. He loved literature, but not enough to let it alone and stop trying to improve it.

Will Cuppy The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950)

KRETON: But I love having you bore me. You do it so beautifully.

Gore Vidal Visit to a Small Planet (1957)

I don't hate America. I love America. I want it to be better. The only way we can get it to be better is to realistically criticize what's wrong with it.

Bill Maher Larry King Live interview (2010)

His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he loved like a thousand bricks.

P. G. Wodehouse Joy in the Morning (1947)

My wife will buy anything marked down. Last year she bought an escalator.

Henny Youngman The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America (2001)

I love you, too. Big time.

Rush Limbaugh

We are constantly drawing the line between
love and not love —
Enter into the Non-duality Zone.
All judgements dissolve in the Vast Expanse.

Alex Grey Art Psalms (2008)

Reported by Joyce Carol Oates in 1986 (published in 1987): "'It's a lonely sport,' Mike Tyson, who is surrounded by people who love him, says."

Mike Tyson

If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.

Brian Wilson CNN interview (2004)

Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather
of mind got clarity new-found;
now free, I once more weave together
emotion, thought, and magic sound.

Aleksandr Pushkin Eugene Onegin (1823)

Let us speak, love, together some words of our story,
That our lips as they part may remember the glory!
O soft day, O calm day, made clear for our sake!

William Morris Love is Enough (1872)

That night they made love, the kind of love-making that is another country, a country of its own, not yours or mine. (p144)

Nadine Gordimer The Pickup (2001)

Swanee!
How I love you, how I love you,
My dear ol' Swanee!
I'd give the world to be
Among the folks in
D-I-X-I-E

Irving Caesar Swanee (1919)

Pete's my best friend, I was the best man at his wedding, I love that man to death. I'd take a bullet for him.

Patrick Stump

The popular anti-war slogan from the 1960’s says it best: “Make love, not war.”

Newton Lee

I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.

Arthur Symons

Nihilism is not overcome by arguments or analyses; it is tamed by love and care. Any disease of the soul must be conquered by a turning of one’s soul. (p19)

Cornel West Race Matters (1993)

And pray that a wreath like a rainbow
May slip from the beautiful past,
And Crown me again with the sweet, strong love
And keep me, and hold me fast.

Voltairine de Cleyre And Thou Too (1888)

Life is a risk; so is writing. You have to love it.

Richard Matheson The New York Times interview (1994)

How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything. (Ch 8)

Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks (2003)

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