Anniversary Quotes and Toasts Sure To Be Memorable

The words "Let's hear a toast!" can easily make the average person cringe with fear and trepidation, but many occasions call for a toast, including anniversary parties. As long as you're prepared, you have nothing to fear. We've gathered some memorable anniversary quotes sure to be a big hit in your anniversary toast or speech.

The only thing you need to consider when making a toast is how appropriate it is to your spouse, the mood at the party, and the guests . If it's a rollicking crowd who love a good laugh - and if your spouse has a great sense of humor - by all means say something funny. We have some humorous anniversary quotes to get you started. On the other hand, if it feels like a truly sentimental moment, and your wife is the type who wants to hear words of love and admiration, then a more serious toast is called for. Another way to go would be to say something funny, then move to the more serious expression of your feelings. See our sweet and sentimental anniversary quotes for some heartfelt winners. You might even look at anniversary poems for some ideas.

Here are some anniversary quotes to use to get your toast started. Follow them up with a few words of your own - from the heart - to personalize the toast and make your wife feel special. You can tell a brief story that reminds you of how wonderful she is, you can thank her for the years she's spent with you and all she has brought to your life; you can express your hopes for a long and happy life together in the future.

Sweet and sentimental anniversary quotes:

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times with the same person."
Mignon McLaughlin

"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

"Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever."
Unknown

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

"True love stories never have endings."
Richard Bach

"Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold."

Zelda Fitzgerald

"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh our thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away."
Dinah Craik

Amusing anniversary quotes:

"Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him."
H.L. Mencken

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

"Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots."
Hoosier Farmer

"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly."
Peter D Vries

"Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock. "
Unknown

"Spouse: someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single."
Unknown

"It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
Rita Rudner

"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."
Phyllis Diller

"If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?"
Unknown

"Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Connors. Love is when you realize he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway."
Judith Viorst

"Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast."
Woody Allen

"Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off."
Unknown

"Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin, it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring."
S. J. Perelman

Try one of these anniversary quotes and let her know how you really feel. Tell her " I forever do " today and every day.

What anniversary is she dreaming of?