Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides;
Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
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.
Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing,
Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.
Her virtue and the conscience of her worth,
That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.
"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, "…in the human heart that had better not be wibrated."
When we want to say something deeply personal, we often say that we are speaking “from the heart".
Who, for the poor renown of being smart,
Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
The more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.
You couldn't love anything as much as I loved investments and not get fairly good at it.
Our souls are brought together so that we could love each other.