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.
Oh love entertained in stars and doves,/how like a joyous spray you cross my soul!
For, you see, each day I love you more,
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
Long is the calm brain active in creation;
Time only strengthens the fine fermentation.
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, "I do not love thee."
Marriage, n. A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Uxoriousness, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.
This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past.
You shouldn't chase after the past or place expectations on the future. What is past is left behind.