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.
That vast, beneficent Eternity
Where all things lovely pass to when they die.
Better to have the poet's heart than brain,
Feeling than song.
How could I think the brief years were enough
To prove the reality of endless love?
The more we love a mistress, the nearer we are to hating her.
Better to have loved and lost, than not to have loved at all. (Free translation).
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
If she deny to wed, I'll crave the day
When I shall ask the banns and when be married.
Some dish more sharply spiced than this
Milk-soup men call domestic bliss.