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
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
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.-Simone Signoret
May you live all the days of your life.-Jonathan Swift
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
Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.-Barbara Hershey
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
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
I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.-Kyle Chandler
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.-A. P. Herbert
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
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.-Robert A. Heinlein
A lot of good love can happen in ten years.-Jim Carrey
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.-Boris Pasternak
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.-Pope John Paul II
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
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.-Martin Luther
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.-Caroline Kennedy
I love being my husband’s wife.-Julianna Margulies
Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist – because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That’s how she found out what happened on the day my father died – she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.-Mitt Romney
After about 20 years of marriage, I’m finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.-Mel Gibson
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.-Marilyn Monroe
My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it’s just a number.-Jamie Lee Curtis
I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.-Aaron Spelling
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.-Carson Daly
So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person. – Anne Bancroft
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.-Doug Larson
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.-William O. Douglas
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?-Barbra Streisand
I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.-Henny Youngman
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.-Honore de Balzac
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.-Benjamin Franklin
Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!-Patrice Leconte
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.-Peter De Vries
Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.-E. W. Howe
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder. – Jonathan Swift
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.-Blake Shelton
My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.-Teri Polo
That there’s no more important decision in life than who you marry.-Brad Paisley
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.-H. L. Mencken
I love marriage. I think it’s a wonderful institution and it’s the most important decision you make.-Isla Fisher
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.-Pope John Paul II
Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.-Todd Tiahrt
We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.-Uta Hagen
We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent’s birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend’s important anniversary.-Mariella Frostrup
The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.-Mac Thornberry
Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation’s progress towards the realization of his dream.-Adam Schiff
You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything. – Chris Daughtry
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.-Sue Townsend
An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.-Zoe Foster Blake
To mark the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, I wanted to launch an FDNY shirt that pays tribute to the brave first responders who, like my father, risk their lives in the line of duty on a regular basis. All of the proceeds raised from the sale of the T-shirt benefit the New York Police & Fire Widows’ & Children’s Benefit Fund.-Mark Sanchez
I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.-Wale
It was less in pity than in anger that the world was moved by the photograph of little Alan Kurdi, that dead three-year-old Syrian refugee boy whose name we’re all remembering now on the first anniversary of his drowning, along with his five-year-old brother Galip and their mother Rehanna.-Terry Glavin