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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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I’m not going to tell you that I’ve never been loved before, but being loved the way that makes you feel completely satiated is a different thing

Niecy Nash-Betts

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being, neither white, black, brown nor red.

Malcolm X Attributed

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

Albert Einstein Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)

Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Except are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

Aristotle Disputed

What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!

William Ellery Channing Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Rumi Attributed

A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops.

Hans Hofmann Misattributed

Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.

Albert Einstein Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.

Stephen Grellet Disputed

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt Disputed

I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here—to love and to serve.

Albert Einstein Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.

Benjamin Franklin Attributed

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Groucho Marx Misattributed

There is a lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleased my mind;
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.

Robert Herrick Disputed

...three of life's most important areas: work, love, and taking responsibility.

Sigmund Freud Attributed

’Cause grace and virtue are within
Prohibited degrees of kin;
And therefore no true saint allows
They should be suffered to espouse.

Samuel Butler Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God — he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

Albert Einstein Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

He that will win his dame must do
As love does when he draws his bow;
With one hand thrust the lady from,
And with the other pull her home.

Samuel Butler Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

She that with poetry is won,
Is but a desk to write upon;
And what men say of her they mean
No more than on the thing they lean.

Samuel Butler Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine of Hippo Disputed

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