The marriage-bed is the most degenerating influence of the social order.
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.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination.
Ah, how I loved them; I know full well I loved them! I led them all to death.
Every day should be distinguished by at least one particular act of love.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
This is Love; to fly heavenward
To rend every instant a hundred veils.
I am the sunlight falling from above,
Yet never severed from the sun I love.
We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
When the intoxication of love has passed, we laugh at the perfections it had discovered.
"I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while!"