Happy anniversary! Whether you’ve been dating for a few years or are married to your best friend and lover for decades, it’s time to celebrate the date you made your true love official with anniversary quotes in a sweet message.
No matter what year of marriage you’re welcoming — your first year, 25th anniversary or 50th anniversary and beyond — an anniversary is a time to remember what it was like when you were first falling in love, knowing those lips you kissed would be the only ones you wanted for the rest of your life.
This is the time for the perfect message in the form of a sweet anniversary quote to show how much you care, appreciate, and love each other.
This is the moment where you express why you are your own favorite couple or reminisce about your wedding day. This is when you convey the message that your life is better with your other half by your side. And if you’re more of a comedian, to bring your sense of humor into your message.
Your anniversary is a special time for couples, so no matter how you choose to celebrate this special marriage milestone, let your partner know just how much they mean to you. A wedding anniversary quote in an anniversary, card or a sweet message shared on social media, shows the person you love that they are still the light of your life, as well as your top priority.
Each couple has their own special anniversary traditions, and a gift doesn’t have to come with a hefty price tag. Many people agree that receiving a heartfelt anniversary card or love note that captures your authentic feelings is all they need from the person they love.
It could be as simple as saying “I love you” or “I thank God for you every morning I wake up in your arms.” Really, though, there are so many things you can say to each other. And if you’re wishing a friend couple of yours, or even your mom and dad, a happy anniversary, say you’re proud of how far they’ve come or how much they’ve grown together.
A handwritten note, quote posted on Facebook or Instagram, or sweet thought sent in a text on your special day could be the best anniversary gift your husband or wife has yet to receive. But if you’re at a loss for words, or if a funny anniversary message is more your style, never fear.
These are the best anniversary quotes to help you say whatever captures your love and marriage best.
Anniversary Quotes For the Husband
1. “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
2. “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
3. “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
4. ”In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.” — Virginia Woolf
5. “Whatever our souls are made of, [yours] and mine are the same.” — Emily Brontë
6. “I don’t call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don’t flatter me.” — Charlotte Brontë
7. “Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.” — Joyce Brothers
8. “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
Anniversary Quotes For the Wife
9. “Grow old with me, the best is yet to be.” — Robert Browning
10. “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
11. “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” — Hermann Hesse
12. “I want you for always… days, years, eternities.” — Franz Schubert
13. “I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.” — John Keats
14. “I trust you: That’s huge. That’s truth. That’s real love. Everyone uses ‘I love you’ so loosely.” — Justin Chatwin
15. “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
16. “I’m much more me when I’m with you.”
Cute Anniversary Quotes
17. “Real love stories never have endings.” — Richard Bach
18. “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, “Winnie the Pooh”
19. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
20. “Because of you, I laugh a little harder, cry a little less, and smile a lot more.”
21. “I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it” — E.E. Cummings
22. “When I follow my heart, it leads me to you.”
23. “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”
24. “Forever is a long time, but I wouldn’t mind spending it by your side.” — He Is We, “I Wouldn’t Mind”
25. “Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite.”
Funny Anniversary Quotes
26. “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
27. “Love is sharing your popcorn.” — Charles Schultz
28. “I love you more than coffee, but please don’t make me prove it.” — Elizabeth Evans
29. “Marriage is like vitamins: we supplement each other’s minimum daily requirements.” — Kathy Mohnke
30. “I love you no matter what you do, but do you have to do so much of it?” — Jean Illsley Clarke
31. “Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.” — Erma Bombeck
32. “Marriage is like pantyhose. It all depends on what you put into it.” — Phyllis Schlafly
33. “Love is blind but marriage is a real eye-opener.” — Pauline Thomason
34. “I love you and it’s getting worse.” — Joseph E. Morris
35. “Being a good husband is like being a stand-up comic. You need 10 years before you can call yourself a beginner.” — Jerry Seinfeld
Short and Sweet Anniversary Quotes
36. “If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.” ― W.H. Auden
37. ”In a sea of people, my eyes will always search for you.”
38. ”I love you forever, not maybe. You are my one true love.” — Lana Del Rey, “Off To The Races”
39. ”Remember that I love you.” — Kimya Dawson
40. ”Hold my hand and I’ll go anywhere with you.”
41. “I love you — I am at rest with you — I have come home.” — Dorothy L. Sayers
42. ”We loved with a love that was more than love.” — Edgar Allan Poe
43. “I love you more than my own skin.” — Frida Kahlo
44. “I just want you to know, that when I picture myself happy, it’s with you.”
45. ”To love at all is to be vulnerable.” — C.S. Lewis
Romantic Anniversary Quotes
46. “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
47. “I wish there was a word more than ‘love’ itself to convey what I feel for you.” ― Faraaz Kazi
48. “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
49. ”I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.” — Cassandra Clare
50. “Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you I had no control over.”
51. “Love is an act of surrender to another person. Total abandonment. I give myself to you. Take me. Do anything you like with me. So, that’s quite mad because you see, it’s letting things get out of control. All sensible people keep things in control… So, actually, therefore, the course of wisdom, what is really sensible, is to let go, is to commit oneself, to give oneself up and that’s quite mad. So we come to the strange conclusion that in madness lies sanity.” — Alan Watts
52. “I swear when our lips touch, I can taste the next sixty years of my life.”
53. “Here’s my love, take it. 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.”
54. “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
55. “Words simply cannot tell how much I love you. There aren’t enough words in the world to express my feelings for you, so I will just say: I love you.”
One Year Anniversary Quotes
56. “If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.” ― Santosh Kalwar
57. “I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” — Leo Christopher
58. “Maybe that’s what love is. Having someone who guides you through different experiences, coaxes you to try news things but still makes you feel safe.” ― Wally Lamb, “We Are Water”
59. ”Sometimes you get lucky and find a soul that grooves with yours.”
60. “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
Five Year Anniversary Quotes
61. “His calm and gentle tone was like an anchor in a ferocious sea, keeping me from drifting into a current of heartache.” ― K.M. Golland, “Discovering Stella”
62. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.” — Nicholas Sparks
63. “Love isn’t finding a perfect person. It’s seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” — Sam Keen
64. “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” — Andre Marois
65. “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
Ten Year Anniversary Quotes
66. “The highest happiness on earth is marriage.” — William Lyon Phelps
67. “Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.” — Simone Signoret
68. “You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
69. “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
70. “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 Clodfelder
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