Anniversary Quotes

"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."

"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."

"May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live."

"Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply."

"A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year."

"May you live all the days of your life."

"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."

"There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage."

"You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long."

"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years."

"Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church."

"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."

"More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse."

"Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it."

"One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul."

"Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate."

"After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!"

"Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred."

"In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me."

"The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep."

"I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership."

"I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage."

"A lot of good love can happen in ten years."

"Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness."

"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly."

"I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life."

"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?"

"I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me."

"You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate."

"I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life."