Anniversary Quotes for Every Kind of Love

Sometimes you just need the right words. An anniversary asks you to sum up a whole year, or ten, or fifty, in a card or a toast, and the mind goes blank. So here is a collection worth borrowing from, sorted by mood, along with a gentle push to write something of your own underneath. Because the best anniversary line is always the one that sounds like the two of you.

Romantic anniversary quotes

The classics, from people who found the words first.

• "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be." - Robert Browning
• "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." - Mignon McLaughlin
• "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• "In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours." - Maya Angelou
• "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott

Short quotes for a card

When less is more, these fit anywhere and say plenty.

• Still you. Always you.
• My favourite place is beside you.
• A hundred years would not be enough.
• Same promise, deeper meaning.
• Here is to us, and to all the years still coming.
• Every year, more.

From literature and scripture

For the couple who likes a little weight behind the words.

• "Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds." - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116
• "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
• "I have found the one whom my soul loves." - Song of Solomon 3:4

Light and funny lines

Because a long marriage runs on a good sense of humour.

• Still married, still right about the thermostat. Here is to another year.
• The secret to a happy anniversary: selective memory and excellent snacks.
• We have argued about the same three things for years and I would not trade a single one.
• Thank you for still laughing at my jokes. You do not have to, and yet.
• Marriage is finding the one person you can annoy for the rest of your life. Found you.

Or write your own

Here is the honest truth: the most treasured anniversary words are almost never borrowed. A quote is a lovely way to open a card, but the line your partner will keep is the specific one only you could write. So use one of the above to set the tone, then add a sentence of your own: a memory from this year, a thing you are grateful for, an inside joke no one else would understand. That is the part they will read again in ten years.

And if this anniversary is a big one, a card may not be enough. Many couples mark the milestones by renewing their vows, saying the promises again with all the years behind them, often somewhere beautiful. If that idea moves you, our vow renewal in Bali page shows what it can look like, and one enquiry is all it takes to start planning a day worth far more than any quote.