“Should I draw you the picture of my heart, it would be what I hope you still would love; though it contained nothing new.”
Abigail Adams

200 FAMOUS QUOTES · ANNIVERSARY
Read 200 beautiful anniversary quotes about lasting love, marriage and growing old together from Shakespeare, John Donne, Kahlil Gibran and more.
“Should I draw you the picture of my heart, it would be what I hope you still would love; though it contained nothing new.”
Abigail Adams
“My angel, my all, my very self.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“I have not spent a day without loving you.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett, and I love you too.”
Robert Browning
“You have ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist.”
John Keats
“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
John Keats
“My love is selfish - I cannot breathe without you.”
John Keats
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
William Shakespeare
“Speak low if you speak love.”
William Shakespeare
“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs.”
William Shakespeare
“O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!”
William Shakespeare
“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”
William Shakespeare
“Not marble nor the gilded monuments of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme.”
William Shakespeare
“For nothing this wide universe I call, save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all.”
William Shakespeare
“With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls; for stony limits cannot hold love out.”
William Shakespeare
“No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved.”
William Shakespeare
“Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.”
William Shakespeare
“Where whenas death shall all the world subdue, our love shall live, and later life renew.”
Edmund Spenser
“My true love hath my heart, and I have his.”
Philip Sidney
“Busy old fool, unruly sun, why dost thou thus, through windows, and through curtains, call on us?”
John Donne
“I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so.”
John Donne
“Maid of Athens, ere we part, give, oh give me back my heart!”
Lord Byron
“There is no instinct like the heart.”
Lord Byron
“O wert thou in the cauld blast, on yonder lea, my plaidie to the angry airt, I'd shelter thee, I'd shelter thee.”
Robert Burns