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

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


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


He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

~Leo Tolstoy


When love is not madness, it is not love.

~Pedro Calderon de la Barca


When I am with you, the only place I want to be is closer. 

~Author Unknown


...Let the world know, if there was ever love:
Mine for you...

~Peter Winstanley


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


I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,
After the day's great sun.

~Charles Hanson Towne


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


Let me lie,
let me die on thy snow-covered bosom,
I would eat of thy flesh as a delicate fruit,
I am drunk of its smell, and the scent
of thy tresses
Is a flame that devours.

~George Moore


Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.

~Ovid


I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy.  I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die.  I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports.... When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours; I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them. 

~Gustave Flaubert, letter to wife Louise Colet, 15 August 1846


The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.

 ~Edward Thomas

Friendship Quotes

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels


Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with. ~Robert Brault,


Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. ~Author Unknown


A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~Leo Buscaglia


Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb


The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. ~Aristotle


In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer


A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. ~Arnold H. Glasgow


The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927


A good friend is cheaper than therapy. ~Author Unknown


If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. ~Edgar Watson Howe


The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. ~Henry David Thoreau


A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. ~Arnold Glasow


But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
~William Shakespeare


The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley


It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake


A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers. ~Pam Brown


One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. ~George Santayana


A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~Donna Roberts


If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort. ~Terri Guillemets

Love Quotes

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. 

~Mother Teresa


Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.  ~Albert Einstein


There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.  It is God's finger on man's shoulder. 

~Charles Morgan


You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.

 ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. 

~Ovid


Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. 

~Eric Fromm


Love has no desire but to fulfill itself.  To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.  To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. 

~Kahlil Gibran


Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners.  Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway. 

~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975


Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

 ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949


Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. 

~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière


When love is not madness, it is not love. 

~Pedro Calderon de la Barca


Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. 

~Malagasy Proverb


Do I love you because you're beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella


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


Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate! 

~Sandra J. Dykes


Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. 

~Mark Overby


Love is a symbol of eternity.  It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. 

 ~Author Unknown


Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. 

 ~Author Unknown