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 is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.
Love's of itself too sweet; the best of all
Is, when love's honey has a dash of gall.
Let moderation on thy passions wait;
Who loves too much, too much the lov'd will hate.
What magic shall solve us the secret
Of beauty that’s born for an hour?
Beauty vanishes like a vapor,
Preach the men of musty morals.
To set the cause above renown,
To love the game above the prize.
To love and be beloved, this is the good,
Which for most sovereign all the world will prove.
When summer gathers up her robes of glory,
And, like a dream of beauty, glides away.
But beauty has wings, and too hastily flies,
And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.