If you or someone you know has an anniversary coming up and you need to find the right words to express how you feel, then you’re in the right place.
Because in today’s post I want to share 130 of the most meaningful, funny and famous anniversary quotes, wishes and messages.
Use them in a card, in a social media post on Instagram, at a celebration or in any way you want to make that special day extra memorable and filled with love and positive energy.
Happy Anniversary Quotes and Wishes for Couples
“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
“For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
– Stephanie Perkins
“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
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
– Audrey Hepburn
“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
“A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.”
– Paul Sweeney
“Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.”
– Zane Grey
“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
“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.”
– Simone Signoret
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
– Aristotle
“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
“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
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
– Emily Brontë
“Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.”
– Barnette R. Brickner
“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
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
– Lao Tzu
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
– James Baldwin
“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
– Robert Browning
“An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.”
– Zoe Foster Blake
“I’ve never had a moment’s doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.”
– Ian McEwan
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you.’”
– Erich Fromm
“I wouldn’t change a thing, as happiness you bring. You are my soulmate. A marriage made by fate.”
– Catherine Pulsifer
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
– Robert Heinlein
“Real love stories never have endings.”
– Richard Bach
Short Happy Anniversary Quotes and Messages
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
– Herman Hesse
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
– Joseph Campbell
“I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“You are the butter to my bread, and the breath to my life.”
– Julia Child
“You are my today and all of my tomorrows.”
– Lee Christopher
“All that you are is all that I’ll ever need.”
– Ed Sheeran
“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.”
– Elaine Davis
“Where there is love there is life.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
“I love you – I am at rest with you – I have come home.”
– Dorothy L. Sayers
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
– David Viscott
“Who, being loved, is poor?”
– Oscar Wilde
“There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.”
– George Sand
“I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it, and it’s still I love you.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald
“I wish there was a word more than ‘love’ itself to convey what I feel for you.”
– Faraaz Kazi
“In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.”
– Virginia Woolf
“True love stories somehow always find a way forward through the obstacles of life.”
– Unknown
“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.”
– Leo Christopher
“A simple ‘I love you’ means more than money.”
– Frank Sinatra
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
– Maya Angelou
Funny Happy Anniversary Quotes
“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
“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.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.”
– Terry Pratchett
“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
“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”
– Winston Churchill
“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.”
– Will Ferrell
“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.”
– Henny Youngman
“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.”
– Agatha Christie
“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
“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.”
– Jim Carrey
“Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.”
– Albert Einstein
“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
– Phyllis Diller
“Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.”
– Erma Bombeck
“Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.”
– Jerry Seinfeld
“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?”
– Groucho Marx
“I married for love but the obvious side benefit of having someone around to find my glasses cannot be ignored.”
– Cameron Esposito
“I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.”
– Lyndon B. Johnson
“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!”
– Jacques Pepin
“They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.”
– Clint Eastwood
“Marriage is the bond between a person who never remembers anniversaries and another who never forgets them.”
– Ogden Nash
“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
– Socrates
Meaningful Happy Anniversary Quotes and Wishes for Cards
“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”
– André Maurois
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
“Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.”
– Harville Hendrix
“To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.”
– Robert Brault
“People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.”
– Paul Newman
“There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”
– Martin Luther
“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
“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”
– Dave Meurer
“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is.”
– Louis de Bernières
“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”
– Ruth Bell Graham
“Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
– Franklin P. Jones
“Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“The greatest marriages are built on teamwork, a mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.”
– Fawn Weaver
“You come to love not by finding the right person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
– Sam Keen
“More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.”
– Doug Larson
“A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.”
– Dave Willis
“When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.”
– Helen Gahagan Douglas
“No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than they once were.”
– Anthony Kennedy
“The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.”
– William Lyon Phelps
“Happily ever after is not a fairy tale – it’s a choice.”
– Fawn Weaver
“Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.”
– Michael Leunig
“True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.”
– Honoré de Balzac
Happy Anniversary Quotes and Wishes for a Wife or Husband
“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known – and even that is an understatement.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“A good marriage isn’t something you find. It’s something you make, and you have to keep on making it.”
– Gary Thomas
“I am grateful that you were born, that your love is mine, and our two lives are woven and welded together.”
– Mark Twain
“Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.”
– Franz Schubert
“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
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you directly, without problems or pride.”
– Pablo Neruda
“Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that’s a real treat.”
– Joanne Woodward
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love. I have found you.”
– Charlotte Brontë
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”
– Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
– Nora Ephron
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
– Bruce Lee
“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 know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
– Dr. Seuss
“I said I love you, that’s forever.”
– Billy Joel
“You are the best thing that’s ever been mine.”
– Taylor Swift
“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.”
– Katharine Hepburn
“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
“When I look into your eyes, I know I have found the mirror of my soul.”
– Joey W. Hill
“To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.”
– Valerie Lombardo
“Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
– E.E. Cummings
“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
– Nicole Krauss
Famous Happy Anniversary Quotes and Messages
“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
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust
“There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?”
– Mary Oliver
“Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.”
– Barbara De Angelis
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness – and call it love – true love.”
– Robert Fulghum
“A happy marriage is the world’s best bargain.”
– O.A. Battista
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“A good marriage is a contest of generosity.”
– Diane Sawyer
“In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.”
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.”
– Robert A. Heinlein
“Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.”
– Tom Mullen
“The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make – not just on your wedding day, but over and over again – and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.”
– Barbara De Angelis
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day.”
– Gene Perret
“A marriage doesn’t have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.”
– Jessica Simpson
“When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there.”
– Julia Roberts
“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
“Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.”
– Vincent van Gogh
Want more inspiration for your celebration? Then have a look at these funny anniversary quotes, the inspirational wedding quotes here and also this one with short marriage and wedding quotes.