Valentine's Day Quotes

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Valentine's day is just around the corner and Cupid seems to be overworking already. So, as you warm up for this day dedicated to the strongest and most illogical emotion of all times, love, read to find out what some of the greatest minds in history had to say about this emotion and this day. Here are some classic Valentine's day quotes for you to draw inspiration from.
Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!" ~ Thomas Hood.
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I do believe that love is special enough to be expressed everyday. I completely agree with the viewpoint that why should we restrain ourselves to showing overwhelming emotions to just one day. But here's a thing, we have several other days which we tend to celebrate, dedicated to special people and things such as Mother's Day, Father's Day, Bosses' day and even Chocolate Day. In some countries even 'fast food day' is lionized. So, if we can celebrate something as trivial as junk food, which actually harms us, why can't we dedicate just one day to the purest and most unconditional sentiment ever?

Valentine's day does not stand for expressing our passion for only 24 hours and neglecting our partners for the other 364 days. But rather it is that one day where our efforts are given the opportunity to stand out in the eyes of our lovers. That one day which is all for loving, for dusting away all the cobwebs of worldly worries and allowing only unadulterated and illogical emotions to shine through. Now there's nothing wrong with that! So, whether Valentine's day came into existence due to a Roman priest called St. Valentine who truly sent a note to his beloved on 14th February, 269 AD, before being beheaded, signing off as "From Your Valentine", or like the Saint Valentine's day history story which says that it's a dedication to the Gnostic priest, Valentinius of Alexandria, who advocated the sanctity of marriage, or an exaggerated figment of Geoffrey Chaucer's imagination presented in the "Parliament of Foules", Valentine's day gives us a whole day to celebrate the glories of love! Now that's what I feel. But if you are not totally in agreement with me then you can read some of the most famous Valentine's day quotes, to see what the great minds in history have to say about it. Enjoy!

Cute Valentine's Day Quotes
Truly touching, read them to understand why they make for the best Valentine's Day quotes ever! You can find some other beautiful expressions about love in French love quotes.

"I just love to do special things for my wife on Valentine's day. Like open the door for her when she puts all the laundry in the washing machine, or plug and unplug the vacuum as she moves from room to room cleaning. Guys, it's these little thoughtful things you can do to have a marriage such as mine." ~ Anonymous.

"The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of." ~ Blaise Pascal in Pensées.

"When love is not madness, it is not love." ~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca.

"When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams." ~ Dr. Seuss.

"How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?" ~ Albert Einstein.

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." ~ Ingrid Bergman.

"Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's Saint Valentine's.
For that good bishop's sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns." ~ A Valentine's Day poem by Michael Drayton.

"Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots." ~ Hoosier Farmer.

And here's my favourite,
"The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love." ~ Victor Hugo.
Funny Valentine's Day Quotes
Here are some hilarious quotes for Valentine's day, which double as good love quotes, uttered by the wittiest cynics of the world.

"I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon." ~ Anonymous.

"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 in "Outside the Dog Museum".

"Valentine's Day is when a lot of married men are reminded what a poor shot Cupid really is." ~ Anonymous.

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished." ~ Goethe.

"Today is Valentine's Day. Or, as men like to call it, Extortion day." ~ Jay Leno.

"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." ~ Anonymous.

"I wanted to make it really special on Valentine's Day, so I tied my boyfriend up. And for three solid hours I watched whatever I wanted on TV." ~ Tracy Smith.

"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen." ~ La Rochefoucauld.

"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry." ~ Oscar Wilde.

[Note to her gardener] "Basement smells bad. Look for cat poops, change litter. Happy Valentine's Day." ~ Martha Stewart.

Whatever be it, love is wonderful and a day for it is most deliciously awesome! These Valentine's day quotes vouch for it. Bless the soul of the saint who paved the path for lovers to fill their partners up with overwhelming passion on Valentine's day. And I also agree with Ogden Nash where he says,
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"I claim there ain't
Another Saint
As great as Valentine."