The more thorough the understanding needed, the further back in time one must go.
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.
Romance requires trust—and the deeper the trust, the deeper the possibility for romance.
What is the body? That shadow of a shadow
of your love, that somehow contains
the entire universe.
All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.
Love taught him shame, and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
In her first passion woman loves her lover,
In all the others all she loves is love.
Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.
Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source
Of human offspring.
I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.