No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
Valentine's Day Quotes
This page has no collection of its own behind it. It is built from the pages on love, romance and beauty, so it is very large and not selective. Use it as a place to start, and check what you pick.
The check matters more for love than for most topics, because so many of the famous lines are not what they seem. “Choose a job you love” is not Confucius, and “God made beer because he loves us” is probably a garbled Franklin on wine. See the Love page for both. If you are going to put a quote in a card, look at the label next to it first.
Beauty by no complexion is defin'd,
Is of all colours, and to none confin'd.
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.
There is a tide in the affairs of women,
Which, taken at the flood, leads—God knows where.
Expectation postponed makes the heart sick, but a desire realized is a tree of life.
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.
The mightiest love was granted him
Love that does not expect to be loved.
Our love is principle, and has its root
In reason, is judicious, manly, free.