55 Heartfelt Anniversary Quotes for Couples, Husbands, and Wives

No matter if it’s the first anniversary or the 50th, the date that signifies the start of a couple’s journey is always a reason to celebrate. If you, or someone dear to you, have an anniversary approaching, be sure to honor the moment with a meaningful gift or a card that reflects your feelings.

To assist you in finding the perfect words to celebrate your significant other or a cherished couple on their special day, we have compiled a selection of heartfelt anniversary quotes and messages that will undoubtedly make an impression.

These romantic messages and anniversary quotes for partners include all kinds of expressions of love, such as A. A. Milne’s timeless sentiment, “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.” Or Maya Angelou’s poignant quote, “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”

If you’re celebrating someone else’s special day and need a heartfelt note to write in a card, consider Richard Bach’s words, “True love stories never have endings” or Audrey Hepburn’s witty line, “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”

And for those who prefer a bit of humor, this collection of anniversary quotes offers a range of amusing phrases that are sure to make your husband, wife, or partner smile, such as Will Ferrell’s hilarious remark, “Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.”

Whatever anniversary quote you choose, they are all sure to provide the greatest gift of all: a smile.

Wedding Anniversary Quotes

• “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”
• “If ever two were one, then surely we.” — Anne Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband”
• “I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.” — Robert Browning
• “You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle, “The White Company”
• “But you are still you I’m still me and we are we.” — Richard Ratliff
• “You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you in the idea of you my whole life long.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• “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
• “Our hearts speak the same language but more importantly our souls share the same voice.” — Nikki Rowe
• “I love you more than one more day.” — Joan Didion, “The Year of Magical Thinking”
• “How long will I love you? As long as stars are above you, and longer if I can.” — Ellie Goulding, “How Long Will I Love You”
• “My heart is so full of you I can hardly call it my own.” — Liana Rădulescu
• “My heart is, and always will be, yours.” ― Jane Austen, “Sense and Sensibility”

• “I hope it’s okay if I love you forever.” — Ally Maine, “A Star Is Born”
• “I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.” ― Ben Folds, “The Luckiest”
• “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” — Hermann Hesse
• “You’re nothing short of my everything.” ― Ralph Block
• “Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.” — Zelda Fitzgerald
• “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone — we find it with another.” — Thomas Merton

• “You are my greatest adventure.” — Mr. Incredible, “The Incredibles”
• “You feel more like home to me than any place I’ve ever been.” — Angela Blount, “Once Upon an Ever After”
• “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.” ― Roy Croft
• “You had me at ‘hello.’” — Dorothy Boyd, “Jerry Maguire”
• “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” — Mignon McLaughlin
• “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” ― André Maurois

• “I hope you never outlive me so I never have to know what life is like without you.” — C.J. English
• “Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.” — Robert Browning
• “Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.” — E.A. Bucchianeri, “Brushstrokes of a Gadfly”
• “True love is finding your soulmate in your best friend.” — Faye Hall, “My Gift To You”
• “If you were a melody … I used only the good notes.” — Miles, “The Holiday”

Romantic Anniversary Quotes for Husband or Wife

• “May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.” — Robert Heinlein
• “True love would not accept no for an answer.” — Alex Flinn, “A Kiss in Time”
• “Take love when it comes and rejoice.” — Carl Ewald
• “One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.” — Honoré de Balzac
• “There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.” ― Martin Luther
• “Marriage is the beginning of an everlasting melody of love.” — Debasish Mridha

• “True love stories never have endings.” ― Richard Bach
• “This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
• “There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.” — George Sand
• “To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.” — Henry Drummond
• “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
• “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” — Rumi

Funny Anniversary Quotes

• “Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.” — Will Ferrell
• “I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” — Rita Rudner
• “The man who says his wife can’t take a joke, forgets that she took him.” — Oscar Wilde
• “Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.” — Pauline Thomason
• “Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.” — Abraham Lincoln
• “One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.” — Oscar Wilde
• “You know … there is a name for people who are always wrong about everything all the time … husband!” — Bill Maher

• “In every house of marriage there’s room for an interpreter.” — Stanley Kunitz
• “A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.” — Paul Sweeney
• “True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.” — William Goldman, “The Princess Bride”
• “Love is like a good cake; you never know when it’s coming, but you’d better eat it when it does!” — C. JoyBell C.
• “The course of true love never did run smooth.” — William Shakespeare
• “I wanna make you smile, whenever you’re sad, carry you around when your arthritis is bad, all I wanna do, is grow old with you.” — Robbie Hart, “The Wedding Singer”
• “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” — Joan Crawford