Anniversary Quotations

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

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

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

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.

This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.

It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years... it's unbelievable.

Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

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.

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.

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 happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Cerner is a company that just celebrated its 20th anniversary in 1999.

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.

I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm!

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

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!

Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina, and I had the awesome opportunity to bring my family down. We all worked on a house together and met some of the families.

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.

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

Look your best - who said love is blind?

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.

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.

The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self....

If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.

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.

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and I watched it 40 times.

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw, the worse things got for me musically.

On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more'.

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.

I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.

The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.

I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated children to recite daily in a synagogue during the year of mourning for a deceased parent and then on the anniversary of his or her death thereafter.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.

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.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

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.

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.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

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.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

And this year is going to be the 25th anniversary of the 17-0 team, the only undefeated season.

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.

I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready, I think I would have rather been watching.

Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

America's got a Darwin problem - and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, fewer than 40% of Americans are willing to say that they 'believe in evolution.'

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.

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.

Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.

My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

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

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.