If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.
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.
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
My inheritance, how wide and fair
Time is my estate; to Time I'm heir.
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
You're dressed in that dress, I like. Love is swinging in the air, tonight.
It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.