“Stand together yet not too near together: for the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”
Kahlil Gibran
MarriageBalance
Anniversary Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · ANNIVERSARY
Anniversary Quotes
Read 200 beautiful anniversary quotes about lasting love, marriage and growing old together from Shakespeare, John Donne, Kahlil Gibran and more.
“Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.”
Kahlil Gibran
MarriageFreedom
“Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.”
Kahlil Gibran
LoveFulfillment
“And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”
Kahlil Gibran
DestinyLove
“Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.”
The Bible (Song of Solomon 8:7)
Strong LoveFaith
“Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.”
The Bible (Song of Solomon 8:6)
CommitmentStrong Love
“My beloved is mine, and I am his.”
The Bible (Song of Solomon 2:16)
BelongingMarriage
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
The Bible (Genesis 2:24)
MarriageUnity
“What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”
The Bible (Mark 10:9)
MarriageFaith
“Charity suffereth long, and is kind.”
The Bible (1 Corinthians 13:4)
PatienceKindness
“Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.”
The Bible (1 Corinthians 13:7)
EnduranceFaith
“Charity never faileth.”
The Bible (1 Corinthians 13:8)
Lasting LoveFaith
“Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing.”
The Bible (Proverbs 18:22)
WifeBlessing
“Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.”
The Bible (Proverbs 31:10)
WifeTreasure
“And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.”
The Bible (Colossians 3:14)
LoveUnity
“Human nature was originally one and we were a whole, and the desire and pursuit of the whole is called love.”
Plato
SoulmatesLove
“Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.”
Mark Twain
WifeDevotion
“Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
MarriageFunny
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
FriendshipMarriage
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
Emily Brontë
SoulmatesLove
“You are my sympathy - my better self - my good angel.”
Charlotte Brontë
PartnerDevotion
“I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine. We are precisely suited in character - perfect concord is the result.”
Charlotte Brontë
HusbandMarriage
“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow.”
George Eliot
MarriageSupport
“But we loved with a love that was more than love - I and my Annabel Lee.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Deep LoveRomance
“A perfect Woman, nobly planned, to warn, to comfort, and command.”
William Wordsworth
WifeAdmiration