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.
I love digging out old records … Fashion goes round in circles.
[T]he motives which predominate most in human affairs is self-love and self-interest.
If neither love nor pain
Will ever touch thy heart,
Then only God's in thee,
And then in God thou art
"...The things one does, one should do out of love." (chapter 17 p118)
'...She cannot stay out of duty. The things one does, one should do out of love.' (p155)
"This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles"