“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.”
William Shakespeare
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Anniversary Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · ANNIVERSARY
Anniversary Quotes
Read 200 beautiful anniversary quotes about lasting love, marriage and growing old together from Shakespeare, John Donne, Kahlil Gibran and more.
“The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.”
William Shakespeare
RomanceTogether
“One half of me is yours, the other half yours - mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, and so all yours.”
William Shakespeare
DevotionBelonging
“Who could refrain, that had a heart to love, and in that heart courage to make love known?”
William Shakespeare
CourageLove
“Kiss me, Kate.”
William Shakespeare
RomanceShort
“My glass shall not persuade me I am old, so long as youth and thou are of one date.”
William Shakespeare
Growing Old TogetherYouth
“Being your slave, what should I do but tend upon the hours and times of your desire?”
William Shakespeare
DevotionRomance
“So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground.”
William Shakespeare
NeedLove
“But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”
William Shakespeare
RomanceAdmiration
“I am your wife, if you will marry me.”
William Shakespeare
WeddingCommitment
“Love is merely a madness.”
William Shakespeare
FunnyLove
“Of a' the airts the wind can blaw, I dearly like the west, for there the bonie lassie lives, the lassie I lo'e best.”
Robert Burns
WifeDevotion
“John Anderson, my jo, John, we clamb the hill thegither; and mony a cantie day, John, we've had wi' ane anither.”
Robert Burns
Growing Old TogetherMemories
“To make a happy fireside clime to weans and wife, that's the true pathos and sublime of human life.”
Robert Burns
FamilyHome
“And all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes.”
Lord Byron
BeautyAdmiration
“She was a Phantom of delight when first she gleamed upon my sight.”
William Wordsworth
WifeFirst Sight
“I love you the more in that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”
John Keats
True LoveAcceptance
“Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
MemoriesLove
“And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Eternal LoveMemories
“So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip into my bosom and be lost in me.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
RomanceTogether
“Love is best.”
Robert Browning
LoveShort
“Say thou dost love me, love me, love me - toll the silver iterance!”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
RomanceLonging
“If yet I have not all thy love, dear, I shall never have it all.”
John Donne
Deep LoveDevotion
“Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign.”
John Donne
AnniversaryGrowing Old Together
“With thee conversing I forget all time, all seasons, and their change; all please alike.”
John Milton
CompanionshipTimeless Love