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.
She is not well married that lives married long:
But she's best married that dies married young.
There swims no goose so gray, but soon or late
She finds some honest gander for her mate.
The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak;
She could not think, but would not cease to speak.
All other goods by fortune's hand are given,
A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven.
Should all despair
That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind
Would hang themselves.