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 bell strikes one. We take no note of time
But from its loss.
Why did she love him? Curious fool!—be still—
Is human love the growth of human will?
Malebranche would have it that not a soul is left; we humbly think that there still are hearts.
Those who love their neighbor as themselves possess nothing more than their neighbor.
We are all born for love.
It is the principle of existence and its only end.
The three most important things to have are faith, hope and love. But the greatest of them is love.
Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.