50th wedding anniversary quotes
Are you or someone you love about to celebrate a golden anniversary? These 50th wedding anniversary quotes capture the essence of a love that has stood the test of time.
I try not to do regrets – the past is the past. Plus the events and circumstances of my life got me to where I am now and now is pretty darn good.
But if there is one thing I could change, it would have been to have met my husband sooner, because our relationship has had such a positive impact on my life. Together we have created something magical.
I know in the core of my being that if we live long enough, we’ll be celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary one of these days.
And when we do, I’ll be searching for the perfect words to share my feelings at reaching this golden anniversary milestone.
If you’ve been lucky enough to be married to the love of your life for almost 50 years and are wanting wedding anniversary wishes for your husband, or if you’re searching for 50th wedding anniversary wishes for your parents, these quotes make for the perfect addition to a card, caption or speech.
These quotes have been selected because they speak to the beauty that comes from a love that has spanned many years, a love that has grown and matured yet been a constant in the lives of those blessed enough to share it.
- A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person – Mignon Mclaughlin
- Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threaded, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. – Simone Signoret
- Grow old along with me. The best is yet to be. – Robert Browning
- Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. – Franz Schuber
- I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with. – Charles Schulz
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- Life is the flower for which love is the honey. – Victor Hugo
- Love has no age as it is always renewing itself. – Blaise Pascal
- Love is something eternal—the aspect may change, but not the essence. – Vincent van Gogh
- Marriage is like watching the color of leaves in the fall; ever-changing and more stunningly beautiful with each passing day. – Fawn Weaver
- Marriage is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity. – Kahlil Gibran
(You might also like these wedding ring quotes).
- No treasure is more precious than a love grown golden with time. – Unknown
- Oh, how a quiet love can drown out every fear. – Jessica Katoff
- Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day. – Gene Perret
- The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. – Audrey Hepburn
- The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. – Victor Hugo
- The heart that loves is always young. – Greek proverb
- There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye-to-eye keep the house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. – Homer
- They had just celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, and they were not capable of living for even an instant without the other, or without thinking about the other, and that capacity diminished as their age increased. – Gabriel García Márquez
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- True love doesn’t happen right away; it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together. – Ricardo Montalban
- To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow — this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. – Elizabeth Gilbert
- We are not the same people this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. – W. Somerset Maugham
- We were together – I forget the rest. – Walt Whitman
- What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life – to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting? – George Eliot
- You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together. – Nicholas Sparks
Enjoy these beautiful and inspirational 50th wedding anniversary quotes.
The one that always hits me the most is the second to last, because I know that after I met Ben, my other relationships, with their pain and hurt and failure, ceased to exist.
I hope you find one you connect with as strongly.
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