How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?
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.
I call love the recognizing of yourself in the other, and yourself your essential self.
Love will make men dare to die for their beloved—love alone; and women as well as men.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster which devours everything, that is, familiarity.
Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
The instances that second marriage move
Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.
God, the best maker of all marriages,
Combine your hearts in one.
Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle,
The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.
What God hath joined together no man shall ever put asunder: God will take care of that.
They'll tell thee, sailors, when away,
In every port a mistress find.