Let twenty pass, and stone the twenty-first,
Loving not, hating not, just choosing so.
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.
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man,
From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
To copy beauties, forfeits all pretence
To fame—to copy faults, is want of sense.
Nonsense and beauty have close connections — closer connections than Art will allow.
Even in the harshest places there is still wonder and beauty.
None knows the reason why this curse
Was sent on him, this love of making verse.
There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
Love is the law, love under will.
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve:
The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.