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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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You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Dr. Seuss Misattributed

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

Marilyn Monroe Misattributed

Fear not to swear; the winds carry the perjuries of lovers without effect over land and sea, thanks to Jupiter. The father of the gods himself has denied effect to what foolish lovers in their eagerness have sworn.

Tibullus Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea.

Delphine de Girardin Attributed Treasury of Thought (1881)

Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves.

Raphael Attributed

What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
It's the only thing that there's just too little of.
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No not just for some but for everyone.

Jackie DeShannon Misattributed What the World Needs Now is Love (1965)

We need not think alike to love alike.

Ferenc Dávid Misattributed

The best thing you can spend on your kids is time.

Arnold Glasow Attributed

You want my opinion? We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.

Dr. Seuss Misattributed Robert Fulghum in True Love (1998)

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Rumi Misattributed Helen Schucman A Course in Miracles (1976)

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Samuel Johnson Misattributed

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Georges Clemenceau Misattributed

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Harlan Ellison Misattributed

As love without esteem is volatile and capricious; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Jonathan Swift Misattributed

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin Misattributed

One dies twice: to cease to live is nothing, but to cease to love and to be loved is an insupportable death.

Voltaire Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Love is the water of life; receive it in thy heart and soul.

Rumi Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Love is a disease that kills nobody, but one whose time has come.

Marguerite de Navarre Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart.

Albert Einstein Misattributed

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)

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