Valentine's Day
Quotations
Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou
art every day my Valentine! ~Thomas Hood
When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro
Calderon de la Barca
Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like
thee. ~English saying used on poesy rings
Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking
in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in
love. ~Albert Einstein
“I
don't pretend to know what
love is for everyone, but I
can tell you what it is for
me; love is knowing all
about someone, and still
wanting to be with them more
than any other person, love
is trusting them enough to
tell them everything about
yourself, including the
things you might be ashamed
of, love is feeling
comfortable and safe with
someone, but still getting
weak knees when they walk
into a room and smile at
you.”
I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent
Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last
thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me
with a weapon. ~Author Unknown
For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard
Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit
that it makes the ride worthwhile.
- Sean Connery
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of
time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear
of an end. ~Author Unknown
Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable
malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes
eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise
and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown
I claim there ain't
Another Saint
As great as Valentine.
~Ogden Nash
“When
you smiled you had my
undivided attention. When
you laughed you had my urge
to laugh with you. When you
cried you had my urge to
hold you. When you said you
loved me, you had my heart
forever.”
Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you
fall forever. ~Author Unknown
Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special
to catch your heart. ~Author Unknown
Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's
something you have to make. And you must use your
imagination too.
- Joyce Cary
A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the
running across fields into your lover's arms can only
come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you
trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"
We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and
when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with
ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness
and call it love. ~Author Unknown
“Love
is the condition in which
the happiness of another
person is essential to your
own.”Robert Heinlein
Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's Saint Valentine's.
For that good bishop's sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.
~Michael Drayton
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~William
Shakespeare
kisses are a better fate
than wisdom.
~e.e. cummings
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~Author
Unknown
Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde
“The
minute I heard my first love
story I started looking for
you, not knowing how blind
that was. Lovers don't
finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all
along.”Jalal
ad-Din Rumi quotes
In melody divine,
My heart it beats to rapturous love,
I long to call you mine.
~Author Unknown
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert
Browning
Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
- Jerome K. Jerome
Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents!
Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around
lonely. ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a
perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing
to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive.
Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen
thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore
We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar
Allan Poe
“Life's
greatest happiness is to be
convinced we are loved.” ~Victor
Hugo
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
~Ben Hecht
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those
who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for
those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is
eternity. ~Henry Van Dyke
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline
Desbordes-Valmore
A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are
Sixteen (Reprise)"
I've fallen in love many times... always with you.
~Author Unknown
“Love
is the only gold.” Alfred,
Lord Tennyson
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident,
a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding
pattern over Philadelphia. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook,
1975
What I need to live has been given to me by the earth.
Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author
Unknown
One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when
you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love
with you, it keeps you together until maybe you fall in
again.
- Judith Viorst
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul
can reach. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When you're in love you never really know whether your
elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or
if it attributes them to her; whether the light which
surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or
from the meeting of your sparks. ~Natalie Clifford
Barney
Take away love and our earth is a tomb. ~Robert
Browning
“Each
moment of a happy lover's
hour is worth an age of dull
and common life” Aphra
Behn
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora
Neale Hurston
Love is a game that two can play and both win. ~Eva
Gabor
Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house.
~Author Unknown
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after
the first attack. ~Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach, Aphorism
I love thee - I love thee,
'Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.
~Thomas Hood
“To
love is to receive a glimpse
of heaven”
Karen
Sunde
Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. ~George Herbert,
Jacula Prudentum, 1651
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even
there before. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second
Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as
the brain empties.
- Jules Renard
Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but
flows from one which is loved. ~Christopher Paul Rubero
A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin
Proverb
Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes
“A
life without love is like a
year without summer.”
Swedish
Proverb
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~Plato
True love stories never have endings. ~Richard Bach
The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was
important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
~Margaret Atwood
Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart
can hold. ~Zelda Fitzgerald
“If
I could be anything in the
world I would want to be a
teardrop because I would be
born in your eyes, live on
your cheeks, and die on your
lips.”
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but
somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in
heart. ~Kay Knudsen
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. ~Ovid
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
- Oscar Wilde
Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley
I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,
After the day's great sun.
~Charles Hanson Towne
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
If music be the food of love, play on.
- Shakespeare
Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it
is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and
air of passion. ~Author Unknown
Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make
love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our
bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. ~Author
Unknown
The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was
important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
~Margaret Atwood
You know when you have found your prince because you not
only have a smile on your face but in your heart as
well. ~Author Unknown
Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the
joy in a heart. ~Author Unknown
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a
higher law. ~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
Candle light, moon light, star light,
The brightest glow is from love light.
~Grey Livingston
It is never too late to fall in love.
- Sandy Wilson
A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never
outgrows it. ~Frank A. Clark
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be
silly. ~Rose Franken
Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.
~Swedish Proverb
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
- Lamartine
I love you like crazy, baby
'Cuz I'd go crazy without you.
~Pixie Foudre
How did it happen that their lips came together? How
does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that
the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark
shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A
kiss, and all was said. ~Victor Hugo
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one
loves. ~John Bulwer
Love is not singular except in syllable. ~Marvin Taylor
They who meet on an April night are forever lost in
love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon
above. ~E.Y. "Yip" Harburg and Fred Saidy, dialogue
just before the song "Old Devil Moon" in the musical
Finian's Rainbow (Thanks, Katherine!)
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having
asked any clear question.
- Albert Camus
Love me and the world is mine. ~David Reed
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly
desired. ~Robert Frost
Love is the poetry of the senses. ~Honoré de Balzac
Come live in my heart and pay no rent. ~Samuel Lover
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing
lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
~Erich Segal
It's not the men in my life that count -- it's the life
in my men.
- Mae West
Love is what you've been through with somebody. ~James
Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960
Love is being stupid together. ~Paul Valery
For twas not into my ear you whispered
But into my heart
Twas not my lips you kissed
But my soul
~Judy Garland
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the
fire of love with words. ~William Shakespeare
My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key.
~Frederick Saunders
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him
by his friends. People fall in love with the most
appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his
pals.
- Cynthia Heimel
Love is the greatest refreshment in life. ~Pablo
Picasso
What the world really needs is more love and less paper
work. ~Pearl Bailey
Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;
Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more;
A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on,
To make that thousand up a million;
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kisse afresh, as when we first begun.
~Robert Herrick, "To Anthea (III)"
Falling in love is so hard on the knees. ~Aerosmith
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by
imagination. ~Voltaire
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident,
a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding
pattern over Philadelphia.
- Judith Viorst
The most beautiful view is the one I share with you.
~Author Unknown
The most important things are the hardest to say,
because words diminish them. ~Stephen King
My whole heart for my whole life. ~French saying used
on poesy rings
Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the
braille weren't so damned much fun. ~Armistead Maupin,
Maybe the Moon
Love is metaphysical gravity. ~R. Buckminster Fuller
At the touch of Love every one becomes a poet.
- Plato
If I had a single flower for every time I think about
you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Attributed to
Claudia Ghandi
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