“Bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.”
John Milton

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.
“Bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.”
John Milton
“Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Out of the rolling ocean the crowd came a drop gently to me, whispering I love you.”
Walt Whitman
“Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Oh! there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.”
Thomas Moore
“Bid me to live, and I will live thy Protestant to be.”
Robert Herrick
“A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.”
The Bible (Proverbs 12:4)
“The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her.”
The Bible (Proverbs 31:11)
“Her husband also, and he praiseth her. Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.”
The Bible (Proverbs 31:28-29)
“Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.”
The Bible (Song of Solomon 2:10)
“And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.”
The Bible (Genesis 29:20)
“Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh.”
The Bible (Matthew 19:6)
“Let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.”
The Bible (Ephesians 5:33)
“Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.”
The Bible (Colossians 3:19)
“Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house.”
The Bible (Psalm 128:3)
“Marriage is honourable in all.”
The Bible (Hebrews 13:4)
“Happy union with wife and children is like the music of lutes and harps.”
Confucius
“I am the happiest creature in the world.”
Jane Austen
“What did she say? Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does.”
Jane Austen
“We talk, I believe, all day long: to talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.”
Charlotte Brontë
“I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth.”
Charlotte Brontë
“A house without woman and firelight, is like a body without soul or spirit.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Steel-true and blade-straight, the great artificer made my mate.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“It is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.”
Mark Twain