Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel.
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.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
All joys do not cause laughter; great pleasures are serious: pleasures of love do not make us laugh.
Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which tempests emerge when pricked.
Cease to behave as wolves and dogs that you may experience the Shepherd’s love.
Love is a golden key to let in Christ, and a strong lock to keep out others.
The desire to please is born in woman before the desire to love.
Vows are the false money that pays for the sacrifices of love.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years;
And every little absence is an age.