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.
Of all affliction taught a lover yet,
'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired
Nought treads so silent as the foot of Time;
Hence we mistake our autumn for our prime.
Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly;
To every day we live, a day we die.
See Time has touched me gently in his race,
And left no odious furrows in my face.
To the true teacher, time's hour-glass should still run gold-dust.