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.
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature, and embroidered by imagination.
All the passions die with the years; self-love alone never dies.
Servitude debases man to a degree that leads him to love it.
Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.
No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.
Love for old men is sun on the snow: it dazzles more than it warms them.
Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.
When you have not what you love, you must fain love what you have.
When you have not what you love, you must fain love what you have.
Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than of war.