Best Anniversary Quotes
Our collection of the best anniversary quotes is a great resource when you’re in the position of needing the right words for an anniversary card.
Anniversaries are significant milestones in a relationship. It is the occasion to remember where you started and ponder where you are heading. The time to renew your promises and strengthen your relationship. It is a celebration of the success of your relationship and a commitment to the future.
Wedding anniversaries are much more than just modern-day celebrations. They also create precious memories that become part of your relationship and that you can cherish in the future. They can be an inspiration to younger married couples.
Whether it’s the first anniversary or a golden jubilee, anniversaries have always been held close to heart. It’s not just the years of marriage but the depth of the relationship.
Here are some beautiful anniversary quotes you can share with your loved ones and make them feel more special.
Inspirational Anniversary Quotes
1.) In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
Maya Angelou
2.) Real love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach
3.) Whatever our souls are made of, yours and mine are the same.
Emily Brontë
4.) Grow old with me; the best is yet to be.
Robert Browning
5.) As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never change. I will always keep falling in love with you.
Karen Clodfelter
6.) Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
7.) So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
Paulo Coelho
8.) I will spend an eternity loving you, caring for you, respecting you, and showing you every day that I hold you as high as the stars.
Steve Maraboli – Life, the Truth, and Being Free
A Match Made in Heaven
9.) I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you or if it was the second or third, or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.
Cassandra Clare – Clockwork Prince
10.) If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.
W.H. Auden
11.) The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.
Peter De Vries
12.) The highest happiness on earth is marriage.
William Lyon Phelps
13.) I wish there was a word more than ‘love’ itself to convey what I feel for you.
Faraaz Kazi
14.) A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
15.) A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Paul Sweeney
16.) Are we not like two volumes of one book?
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
17.) Love is not singular except in syllables.
Marvin Taylor
18.) Love one another, and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.
Michael Leunig
19.) The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality but must live with a character.
Peter De Vries
20.) Forever is a measure of time used by people who share an ordinary love. Our extraordinary love is immeasurable – for us, forever just won’t do.
Steve Maraboli
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Always and Forever
21.) A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.
Andre Maurois
22.) Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock.
Unknown
23.) Love is a sweet tyranny because the lover endureth his torments willingly.
Unknown
24.) Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Unknown
25.) An anniversary is a time to celebrate the joys of today, the memories of yesterday, and the hopes of tomorrow.
Unknown
26.) Meeting you was fate; becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you I had no control over.
Author Unknown
27.) Forever is a measure of time used by people who share an ordinary love. Our extraordinary love is immeasurable…for us; forever just won’t do.
Steve Maraboli
28.) The best love is the kind that awakens the soul, makes us reach for more, plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.
Nicholas Sparks
True Love Quotes
29.) When you meet the one who changes the way your heart beats, dance with them to that rhythm for as long as the song lasts.
Kirk Diedrich
30.) I love you forever, not maybe. You are my one true love.
Lana Del Rey
31.) God proved two things when he brought us together: his genius and his sense of humor.
Unknown
32.) The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
Rumi
33.) I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
34.) I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way
Pablo Neruda
35.) Happiness is only real when shared.
Jon Krakauer
36.) You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
37.) Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
Happy Anniversary Quotes
38.) Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Franz Schubert
39.) Life with you makes perfect sense. You’re my best friend.
Tim McGraw
40.) Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
41.) A good marriage is like a casserole; only those responsible for it really know what goes into it.
Unknown
Anniversary Quotations For Husband
42.) I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself but for what you are making of me – I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
Roy Croft
43.) For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland
44.) If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Herman Hesse
45.) Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Simone Signoret
46.) Forever is a long time, but I wouldn’t mind spending it by your side.
Unknown
47.) I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that was exactly like being found.
Claire LeZebnik
Anniversary Quotes for Him
48.) I want you for always…days, years, eternities.
Franz Schubert
49.) If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne
50.) There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
Martin Luther
51.) A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Paul Sweeney
52.) I love you much, most beautiful darling, more than anyone on the earth, and I like you better than everything in the sky.
E.E. Cummings
53.) If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.
Alfred Tennyson
Good Anniversary Quotes
54.) An anniversary is a time to celebrate the joys of today, the memories of yesterday, and the hopes of tomorrow.
Unknown
55.) Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive and, better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.
Maya Angelou
56.) The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.
Julia Child
57.) I will spend an eternity loving you, caring for you, respecting you, showing you every day that I hold you as high as the stars.
Steve Maraboli
58.) No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham Lincoln
59.) Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day.
Gene Perret
60.) For it was not into my ear, you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland
Wedding Bell Blues
61.) Real love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach
62.) As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never change. I will always keep falling in love with you.
Karen Clodfelter
63.) Love does not consist of gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery
64.) The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.
Julia Child
65.) We are not the same persons this year as last, nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
W. Somerset Maugham
66.) There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
Martin Luther
67.) Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
68.) To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
70.) Marriage is the natural state of man and the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin
71.) Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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Funny Anniversary Quotes
72.) A wedding band is the smallest handcuff ever made; I’m glad I chose my cellmate wisely.
Unknown
73.) I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner
74.) Marriage is not just spiritual communion; it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Joyce Brothers
75.) Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music, and dancing. She goes Tuesdays; I go Fridays.
Henny Youngman
76.) I’ll love you even when you’re old and wrinkly.
Unknown
77.) For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
78.) I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.
Angelita Lim
79.) A good wife always forgives her husband when she is wrong.
Milton Berle
Quotes for Wife
80.) One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Honore de Balzac
81.) The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.
Author Unknown
82.) I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for someone if you are going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.
Blake Shelton
83.) The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Unknown
84.) Forever is a long time, but I wouldn’t mind spending it by your side.
Unknown
85.) You’re the cheese to my macaroni.
Unknown
86.) Trip over love, and you can get up. Fall in love, and you fall forever.
Unknown
87.) I still fall for you every day.
Unknown
Sweet Anniversary Quotes
88.) You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Dr Seuss
89.) Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, and penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou
90.) Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
Zane Grey
91.) A bed takes up a very small space in a house. You don’t spend a marriage sleeping with a person but waking with her.
Herman Wouk
92.) There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Jane Austin
93.) I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
F Scott Fitzgerald
Heartfelt Quotes for Spouse
94.) The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn
95.) You are the butter to my bread and the breath to my life.
Julia Child
96.) I am grateful that you were born, that your love is mine, and our two lives are woven and welded together.
Mark Twain
97.) I wouldn’t change a thing, as happiness you bring. You are my soulmate. A marriage made by fate.
Catherine Pulsifer
98.) You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known – and even that is an understatement.
F Scott Fitzgerald
99.) You are the best thing that’s ever been mine.
Taylor Swift
100.) All that you are is all that I’ll ever need.
Ed Sheeran
Memorable Wedding Anniversary Quotes
101.) Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain
102.) A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.
Unknown
103.) A wedding is an event. Marriage is a lifetime. Invest more in your marriage than your wedding, and success is inevitable.
Unknown
Famous Anniversary Quotes
104.) You’ve a place in my heart no one else could have.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
105.) A successful marriage isn’t the union of two perfect people. It’s that of two imperfect people who have learned the value of forgiveness and grace.
Unknown
106.) Love at first sight, is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
Sam Levenson
107.) There is no mystery — that’s the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is.
Kamila Shamsie
108.) I love your feet because they have wandered over the Earth and through the wind and water until they brought you to me.
Pablo Neruda
109.) Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
Vincent van Gogh
Notable Anniversary Sayings
110.) Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
Unknown
111.) If I had my life to do over, I would find you sooner so I could love you longer.
Unknown
112.) Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
Barnette R. Brickner
113.) A good marriage is like a casserole; only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
Unknown
114.) Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
115.) It doesn’t matter where you go in life or what you do. It’s who you have beside you.
Unknown
Meant for Each Other
116.) I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
John Keats
117.) It takes just a moment for me to say that I love you, but I will spend my lifetime trying to show it.
Unknown
118.) Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
Chuck Palahniuk
119.) Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Germaine De Stael
120.) You have made me a complete person. You are everything to me. And I cannot think of living life without you. And I love you forever.
David Gest
121.) Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.
Unknown
122.) Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
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123.) Because of you, I laugh a little harder, cry a little less, and smile a lot more.
Unknown
124.) A lot of good love can happen in ten years.
Jim Carrey
125.) It takes a moment to say I love you but a lifetime to show it.
Teresa Collins
126.) Life is a journey, and love is what makes that journey worthwhile.
Unknown
127.) Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert Heinlein
128.) Here’s my love, take it. And, here’s my soul; use it. Here’s my heart, don’t break it. Here’s my hand; hold it, and together, we will make it forever.
Unknown
It’s a Celebration
129.) Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.
Unknown
130.) True love is spending one day getting married and the rest of your life feeling glad you did.
Unknown
131.) So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
Paulo Coelho
132.) Love is not about how many days, months, or years you’ve been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day.
Unknown
133.) For you wake one day, look around, and say, somebody wonderful married me.
Fred Ebb
134.) My bounty is as deep as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
William Shakespeare
135.) Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
Plautus
136.) Anniversaries are like vintage wine, better and better all the time.
Unknown
137.) The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent and it must be equal.
Frank Pittman
138.) The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Lawrence Durrell
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Happy Anniversary Quotes
139.) You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when it’s right, it’s the best thing in the world. When you’re in a relationship and it’s good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.
Keith Sweat
140.) The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a growing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident and the most wonderful of all things in life.
Hugh Walpole Sr.
141.) God, the best maker of all marriages, combines your hearts into one.
William Shakespeare
142.) Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo
143.) Side by side, year by year.
Unknown
144.) A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
Ralph W. Sockman
145.) You are the greatest thing that has ever walked into my life.
Unknown
146.) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde (One of those best anniversary quotes that’s easy to remember)
It’s the Little Things
147.) Another year to create precious memories together. Another year to discover new things to enjoy about each other, and another year to strengthen a marriage that defines forever.
Unknown
148.) Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.
Chinese Proverb
149.) There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
Oscar Wilde
150.) A good wife always forgives her husband when she’s wrong.
Milton Berle
151.) Knowing that I get to spend my life by your side makes me smile a little brighter each new day.
Unknown
152.) The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more; that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what you’ve given me and that’s what I hope to give to you forever.
Unknown
153.) And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.
Kiersten White
154.) Even after all of this time together, I still find new ways of falling in love with you.
Unknown
155.) Always strive to give your spouse the very best of yourself, not what’s left over after you have given your best to everyone else.
Dave Willis
156.) It does not matter where you go in life; all that matters is who you have by your side.
Unknown
157.) The day is here again, I can’t remember every moment of that day, but I could remember when I first looked into your eyes.
Unknown
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Grow Old Along With Me
158.) When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph Campbell
159.) You are my yesterday, my today, my tomorrow, and my forever. I will love you until the end of time.
Unknown
160.) You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had.
Nicholas Sparks
161.) Life is very changeable and nobody knows what’s ahead, but I’m pretty sure that as long as you stay together, everything will be fine.
Unknown
162.) God proved two things when he brought us together: his genius and his sense of humor.
Unknown
Hilarious Anniversary Quotes
163.) A wedding band is the smallest handcuff ever made; I’m glad I chose my cellmate wisely.
Unknown
164.) To keep your marriage brimming with love in the loving cup, whenever you’re wrong—admit it; whenever you’re right—shut up.
Ogden Nash
165.) Marriage is not just spiritual communion; it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Joyce Brothers
166.) For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
167.) Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music, and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
Henny Youngman
Romantic Anniversary Quotes
168.) For it was not into my ear you whispered but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland
169.) The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
Rumi
170.) You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known, and even that is an understatement.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
171.) A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Paul Sweeney
172.) I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
173.) Real love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach
174.) I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way
Pablo Neruda
175.) An anniversary is a time to celebrate the joys of today, the memories of yesterday, and the hopes of tomorrow.
Unknown
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the editor and founder of Greeting Card Poet and has been happily married for 37 years.
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