Anniversary quotes for the years that pass and the love that stays.
Michelle Obama · The source reads: “Happy 25th anniversary @barackobama. A quarter of a century later, you're still my best friend & the most extraordinary man I know. I love you.” · Michelle Obama's Instagram post to Barack on their twenty fifth wedding anniversary.
Ronald Reagan · The source reads: “The important thing is I don't want to be without you for the next 20 years, or 40, or however many there are.” · Reagan's twentieth anniversary letter to Nancy, joking that they had been married twenty minutes, not twenty years.
Jimmy Carter · Carter, then ninety, at the 2015 Carter Center press conference where he discussed his cancer, after sixty nine years of marriage.
Winston Churchill · To Clementine on their wedding anniversary.
Attributed to Amy Bloom · Popular under Amy Bloom's name, and just as often under the humorist Sam Levenson's; no book or interview has been found for either.
Attributed to Joanne Woodward · Woodward on fifty years with Paul Newman, repeated everywhere but never pinned to a dated interview.
A Greek proverb.
George Levinger · Usually pinned on Leo Tolstoy, but the line belongs to George Levinger, the University of Massachusetts psychologist who studied why couples last.
Jerome K. Jerome · The source reads: “Nothing, so it seems to me, is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life.” · The Stranger's line in his play about a lodger who changes a boarding house.
Simone Signoret · The source reads: “Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is thread, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.” · Said about her marriage to Yves Montand in a 1978 Daily Mail interview with David Lewin; the first printing has the singular "thread" and no commas, later anthologies regularised it to the familiar form.
Leo Tolstoy · Levin, three months married to Kitty, discovering what the wedding had made of them.
A widely shared anniversary line with no known author.
Johnny Cash · A birthday note to June Carter Cash for her 65th birthday, written in Odense, Denmark, on 23 June 1994 after 26 years of marriage; voted the greatest love letter of all time in a 2015 Beagle Street poll.
Fawn Weaver · Weaver, who founded the Happy Wives Club after interviewing long married couples on six continents, on what keeps them together.
Attributed to Bruce Lee · Carried everywhere under his name, but not found in his published notebooks or letters.
Queen Elizabeth II · The source reads: “He is someone who doesn't take easily to compliments but he has, quite simply, been my strength and stay all these years, and I, and his whole family, and this and many other countries, owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim, or we shall ever know.” · The Queen on Prince Philip in her golden wedding speech at Banqueting House, the line read again at his funeral.
Rosemonde Gérard · The source reads: “Car, vois-tu, chaque jour je t'aime davantage, / Aujourd'hui plus qu'hier et bien moins que demain.” · From "L'éternelle chanson," a poem in her first collection, engraved on love tokens in France ever since; the French reads "Car, vois-tu, chaque jour je t'aime davantage, aujourd'hui plus qu'hier et bien moins que demain."
Robert Browning · The opening of "Rabbi Ben Ezra," a long meditation on age spoken by a medieval rabbi; borrowed for every anniversary since, and by John Lennon for a song.
An unsigned anniversary card line that turns up on every big quote site, usually marked Unknown.
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