Wedding Anniversary Quotes for Cards

Last Updated: September 22, 2022

Wedding anniversary quotes that capture the occasion perfectly, helping you to express your love and gratitude on such a special occasion.

An anniversary gives you the opportunity to reflect on your relationship, thank your partner for their love and support, and celebrate the wonderful moments and experiences you share together.

But sometimes it's hard to put our feelings into words! So here is a collection of wedding anniversary quotes and sayings that we think will help you express your love and appreciation on this special occasion.

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As there are so many wedding anniversary quotes and sayings, I've grouped them into categories. You can click on each link to see a topic, or scroll down the page to read them all.

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On Loving You

A selection of wedding anniversary quotes about "loving you". This first one is my favorite, it's just so sweet!

I choose you.
And I'll choose you over and over and over.
Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat.
I'll keep choosing you.
~ Unknown

When the world seems more beautiful,
And life even more worth living,
I find I've been thinking of you.
~ Anonymous

"I swear I couldn't love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow."
~ Leo Christopher

"I love two things, you and the rose. The rose for one day, and you forever."
~ Anonymous

"When I say I love you more, I don't mean I love you more than you love me. I mean I love you more than the bad days ahead of us, I love you more than any fight we will ever have. I love you more than the distance between us, I love you more than any obstacle that could try and come between us. I love you the most."
~ Unknown

"You are the sun in my day,
the wind in my sky,
The waves in my ocean,
and the beat in my heart..."
~ Anonymous

"Other men said they have seen angels,
But I have seen thee, and thou art enough. "
~ George Moore

Taught by You

I found this small number of wedding anniversary quotes about how your partner can teach you about love.

"If I know what love is, it is because of you."
~ Herman Hesse

"We are shaped and fashioned by those we love."
~ Goethe

"Love is just a word but you bring it definition."
~ Eminem

Loved with Imperfections

No one is perfect, and if we can truly love each other despite these flaws, that is very special. These happy anniversary quotes capture the essence of love despite our imperfections.

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
~ Victor Hugo

"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

"You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact they're not."
~ Jodi Picoult

Wedding Anniversary Quotes: On Marriage

These wedding anniversary quotes and sayings on marriage are so sweet and would be lovely as part of an anniversary speech or written in a card.

"Marriage is getting to have a sleepover with your best friend every night of the week."
~ Christie Cook

"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that."
~ Michael Leunig

"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation."
~ Samuel Richardson

"There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends."
~ Homer

"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

"Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife."
~ Franz Schubert

"The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself."
~ Voltaire

"In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self."
~ William Penn

Love and the Future

What better wedding anniversary quote than one which talks about the future that still awaits you?

"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be."
~ Robert Browning

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years."
~ Ausonius

"Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age."
~ Booth Tarkington

Wedding Anniversary Quotes: Love Over Time

If you want to reflect on your relationship and how it has matured over time then these wedding anniversary quotes will inspire you.

"Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century."
~ Mark Twain

"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

"Marriage is like a fine wine, if tended properly, it just gets better with age."
~ Unknown

"No road is long with good company."
~ Turkish Proverb

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever."
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
~ Mignon McLaughlin

"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"Each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday, and less than tomorrow."
~ Rosemonde Gerard

What Love Is

These love-themed wedding anniversary quotes and sayings are so beautiful and help you put into words emotions that can be quite hard to express. Perfect for a happy anniversary speech or for including in a card.

"Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses."
~ Ann Landers

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
~ Aristotle

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
~ Victor Hugo

"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

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
~ David Viscott

"Love is a friendship set to music."
~ Joseph Campbell

"Love is a game that two can play and both win."
~ Eva Gabor

"He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back."
~Henri Matisse

"Love is the greatest refreshment in life."
~ Pablo Picasso

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
~ Emily Bronte

"Come live in my heart, and pay no rent."
~ Samuel Lover

"Love is often the fruit of marriage."
~ Moliere

"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."
~ Samuel Johnson

"Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze."
~ Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage."
~ Lao Tzu

"Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made everyday, made new."
~ Ursula LeGuin

"There is only one happiness in life; to love and be loved."
~ George Sand

Piglet: "How do you spell love?"
Pooh: "You don't spell it, you feel it."

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you."
~ Erich Fromm

"To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that's everything."
~ T. Tolis

Biblical Anniversary Quotes

Some beautiful bible quotes which work well as wedding anniversary quotes.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him - a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8

Funny Wedding Anniversary Quotes

Some humorous wedding anniversary quotes for including in a happy anniversary card or speech.

"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

"Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain."
~ Unknown

"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties."
~ Jules Renard

"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

"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

"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

"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

"A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together."
~ James H. Boren

"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her."
~ Agatha Christie

"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."
~ Ambrose Bierce

"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."
~ Samuel Johnson

Free Printable Anniversary Cards

Check out our sweet collection of printable anniversary cards to give to your husband, wife, or partner, and let them know how special they truly are! There are also some lovely card designs to celebrate your parents' or a friend's anniversary too.

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