Published February 09, 1999
Children’s riddles of Valentines Day:
Whom do birds marry? Their tweet hearts!
What did the Valentine card say to the stamp? Stick with me and we'll go places.
Why is the letter A like a flower? A bee comes after it.
Where does Valentine's Day come after Easter? In the dictionary.
What do you have if everyone drove a pink car? A pink car-nation!
Is it better to write a love note on an empty stomach or on a full stomach? Better to write it on paper.
What is the longest word in the English language? SMILES. There is a mile between the first and last letter.
Famous people’s observations of love and the February day of hearts:
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. –Oscar Wilde
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. –Elizabeth Ashley
We can do no great things; only small things with great love. –Mother Teresa
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. –G. K. Chesterton
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. –Diane Ackerman
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. –Libbie Fudim
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. –Jean Jacques Rousseau
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? –Lily Tomlin
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. –1 Corinthians
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." –anonymous
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. –anonymous
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. –David Chambless
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. –Charlie Brown, character in Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schultz
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. –Rose Franken
We love because it's the only true adventure. –Nikki Giovanni
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. –Oscar Levant to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs. –Barbara Howar
To keep your marriage brimming with love, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. –Ogden Nash
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, noble as Ralph Nader, funny as Woody Allen, and athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he is as sexy as Woody Allen, smart as Jimmy Conners, funny as Ralph Nader, athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford, but you'll take him anyway. –Judith Viorst
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. –Lynda Barry
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. –Mary Roberts Rhinehart
The love you take is equal to the love you make. –The Beatles’ last lyric of their last song
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. –Josh Billings
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. –Joan Crawford
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. –1 Corinthians
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. –François de La Rouchefoucauld
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. –Lord Dewar
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. –Albert Einstein
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." –Erich Fromm
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. –Andre Gide
That one is capable of love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. –Helen Hayes
Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness. –M. Hirschfield
The love we give away is the only love we keep. –Elbert Hubbard
Life is the flower for which love is the honey. –Victor Hugo
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. –Lao Tzu
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. –Mother Teresa
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both go to the making of genius. Love; that is the soul of genius. –Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. –George Jean Nathan
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. –William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1.
It is most unwise for people in love to marry. – George Bernard Shaw
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and inflames the great. –anonymous
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. –Mae West
The first duty of love is to listen. –Paul Tillich