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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.

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You fail to understand, my friend. We do not control time. If anything, it controls us. We simply measure it.

Michael Moorcock The Time Dweller (1969)

There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.

Paulo Coelho By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)

Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.

Paulo Coelho By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)

My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.

Christina Rossetti

There is a road that turning always
Cuts off the country of Again.
Archers stand there on every side
And as it runs time's deer is slain
And lies where it has lain.

Edwin Muir

There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving — in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation — never ceases to love.

Paul Bourget

His golden locks time hath to silver turned;
O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!
His youth ’gainst time and age hath ever spurned,
But spurned in vain; youth waneth by encreasing.

George Peele Polyhymnia (1590)

Hours are golden links, God's token
Reaching heaven; but one by one
Take them, lest the chain be broken
Ere the pilgrimage be done.

Adelaide Anne Procter Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Love is the state of enlightenment and enlightenment is the state of love. You can't make any separation between them. Enlightenment is the state of no feelings and pure knowledge and so is love.

Barry Long Love is not a feeling ~ The Interview (1995)

Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.

Randy Pausch The Last Lecture (2008)

Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self.

Sri Chinmoy The Wings of Joy (1997)

Nothing is more natural than to marry.

Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet Sheffield v. Ratcliffe (1615)

I'd rather die Maid, and lead apes in Hell
Than wed an inmate of Silenus' Cell.

Richard Brathwait The English Gentelman and Gentelwoman (1640)

Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven;
A spark of that immortal fire
With angels shared, by Allah given
To lift from earth our low desire.

Lord Byron The Giaour (1813)

Oh Love! young Love! bound in thy rosy band,
Let sage or cynic prattle as he will,
These hours, and only these, redeem Life's years of ill.

Lord Byron

'Tis what I love determines how I love.

George Eliot The Spanish Gypsy (1868)

The white moth to the closing vine,
The bee to the open clover,
And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood
Ever the wide world over.

Rudyard Kipling The Gypsy Trail (1892)

Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates.
The earth is blue.
And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.

Paul Simon Surprise (2006)

Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold.

Oscar Wilde Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

And I, what is my crime I cannot tell,
Vnless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well.

Richard Crashaw

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