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.
And once again we plighted our troth,
And titter'd, caress'd, kiss'd so dearly.
Love, free as air, at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,
Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.
We shall forget by day, except
The moments when we choose to play
The imagined pine, the imagined jay.
All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
Swift speedy Time, feathered with flying hours,
Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass
With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
Time, eftsoon will tumble
All of us together like leaves in a gust,
Humbled indeed down into the dust.
Time is lord of thee:
Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his.
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow.
Therefore fear not to assay
To gather, ye that may,
The flower that this day
Is fresher than the next.
Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long a-doing,
So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.