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.
Socrates … said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved.
God recommends his own love to us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Were such the wife had fallen to my part,
I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart.
He knew whose gentle hand was at the latch,
Before the door had given her to his eyes.
Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.