When things were as fine as could possibly be
I thought 'twas the spring; but alas it was she.
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.
But great loves, to the last, have pulses red;
All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
Time went on, relentlessly, and one by one the proud works of man were lost.
We should hold day with the Antipodes,
If you would walk in absence of the sun.
In leaves, more durable than leaves of brass,
Writes our whole history.
We see time's furrows on another's brow,
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How few themselves in that just mirror see!
Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works
Must yield at length to Time.
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.