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.
You should indeed have longer tarried
By the roadside before you married.
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing,
That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
So bent on self-sanctifying,—
That she never thought of trying
To save her poor husband as well.
Liberty and Union (United States), now and forever, one and inseparable.
I was not singing erewhile for you to follow, to understand — nor am I now…