The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
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.
The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.
Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.
Love is a boy by poets styl'd;
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.