Christmas Quotes 1

Dale Evans
Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

W. C. Jones
The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.

Agnes M. Pharo
What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.

Thomas Tusser
At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

George Matthew Adams, The Christmas Heart
Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.

Taylor Caldwell
I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.

Ann Schultz
Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed, that it might live forevermore to fill our every need, that it shall not be just a day, but last a lifetime through, the miracle of Christmas time that brings God close to you.

Helen Keller
The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

Charles Dickens
It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us, Every One!

Dale Evans Rogers
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

Bess Steeter Aldrich
Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.

Alexander Smith
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Wendy Cope
Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

Louisa May Alcott
The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; the Christmas bells from hill to hill answer each other in the mist.

Mother Teresa
It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you... yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.

Orson Welles
Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

Ruth Carter Stapleton
Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.

Valentines Day Quotes 2

Valentine Day

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. 

~Plato

True love stories never have endings. 

~Richard Bach

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. 

~Zelda Fitzgerald

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

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

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

Who would give a law to lovers?  Love is unto itself a higher law. 

~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

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

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. 

Happy Valentine Day

~E.Y. "Yip" Harburg and Fred Saidy, dialogue just before the song "Old Devil Moon" in the musical Finian's Rainbow  (Thanks, Katherine!)

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

Valentines Day Quotes

It’s time for Valentine's Day, the holiday that reminds you that if you don't have a special someone, you're alone...

~Author Unknown

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

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 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

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

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

Valentine hearts beat more passionately than everyday hearts. 

~Anonymous, winner of February 2011 quotegarden Twitter create your own quote contest

Without Valentine's Day, February would be... well, January. 

~Jim Gaffigan

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

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

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

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. 

~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670

Romantic Quotations 2

Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. 

~Japanese Proverb


For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard


You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.  ~Dr. Seuss


If our two loves be one, or thou and I
Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die.
~John Donne


My debt to you, Belovèd,
Is one I cannot pay
In any coin of any realm
On any reckoning day.
~Jessie B. Rittenhouse


Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee,
It passed into thy lifelong regency.
~Gilbert Parker


Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire. 

~Napolean Bonaparte, letter to wife Josephine, December 1795


Oh, hasten not this loving act,
Rapture where self and not-self meet:
My life has been the awaiting you,
Your footfall was my own heart's beat.
~Paul Valéry


As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. 

~William Shakespeare


To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love. 

~Williston Fish, "A Last Will," 1898


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)"


So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.

 ~John Milton


Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. 

~William Shakespeare


My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, both are infinite.
~William Shakespeare