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.
Love yields to business. If you seek a way out of love, be busy; you'll be safe then.
When Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.
The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.
And let its meaning permeate
Whatever comes, This too shall pass away.
I will fasten on this sleeve of thine:
Thou art an elm, my husband, I, a vine.
Yet while my Hector still survives, I see
My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.