VALENTINE'S DAY QUOTES III
quotations about Valentine's Day
What I'd like to know is how many fights/breakups/divorces occur because of Valentine's Day compared to other days of the year? The men sit at home and wait in fear in case they've done the wrong thing. The women who didn't receive flowers at work rush home snarling. There's so much pressure on relationships on Valentine's Day its practically unbearable. People all over the world are pushed into proposing when they're not quite ready. I know this for a fact because I see them a few months down the line (they're the guys who hit the office mid-March with the scared, wild-horse-like eyes that flick all over the room searching for exit points).
ALLISON RUSHBY
Hating Valentine's Day
I enjoyed some high school Valentine's Day dances. But there were other times when I stood against the wall, wondering why no one wanted to boogie with me. And as a single young woman, I had years when the holiday meant long-stemmed roses and candlelight dinners and others that saw me playing Solitaire until bedtime.
KATHY IDE
21 Days of Love: Stories That Celebrate Treasured Relationships
My wife and I won't be celebrating Valentine's Day this year. Valentine's Day is about romance and 15 years together has tested that particular fantasy -- like many others -- to the limit. Real life has the upper hand.
TIM LOTT
"Valentine's Day is divisive in a way love isn't meant to be", The Guardian, February 12, 2016
Valentine's Day is different. It's about the two of you. And no matter how you justify it by thinking it's a day of love in general, it's not. Yes, you can buy Valentine's Day cards for your son or daughter, mother and father, co-workers and friends to try to make it better. But there's really no escaping what it really is--a holiday for lovers.
BONNIE KAYE
Bonnie Kaye's Straight Talk
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
FERNANDO PESSOA
"Tobacco Shop"
Sure, of all days that ever were dated,
Valentine's Day is the fullest of news;--
Then ev'ry lass expects to be mated
And Cupid goes round collecting his dues!
THOMAS HOOD
"Valentine's Day"
I feel bad for people who die on Valentine's Day. How much would flowers cost then? Ten grand?
JAY LENO
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes
It's been projected that Americans will spend over $13 billion this Valentine's Day. And guys who forget Valentine's Day will spend over $100 billion.
CONAN O'BRIEN
Conan, February 13, 2012
It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year's Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate social pressure from every retailer in America who stuck hearts and cupids on their windows by January second to rub it in.
JOAN BAUER
Thwonk
There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single, flashing, throbbing moment.
SARAH DESSEN
The Truth About Forever
Saint Valentine is past;
Begin these wood-birds but to couple now?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Prometheus Unbound
When you're in elementary school, Valentine's Day is an obligatory dropping of cheap paper cards into construction-paper boxes in front of everybody's desk. In high school, perhaps an elaborate purchase of helium balloons that you have to carry around awkwardly from math class to first lunch. By the time you reach adulthood, the magic is kinda gone. If you're dating, you get to spend twice as much for the same meal at Intermezzo as you spent there last Saturday, and if you're single, don't even try to get a table; they're booked.
JASON JOHNSON
"Ditch the Doomsayers: Black Love Is Real This Valentine's Day, and Here Are 5 Facts to Prove It", The Root, February 14, 2016
Valentine's Day is the worst. It is the most self-sabotaging, cut-your-nose-off-to-spite-your-face holiday we human beings have been stupid enough to come up with. This unmitigated annual disaster is devoted to celebrating, and so putting a microscope to, societal mores about what it means to be in romantic love. (And so also the even-more-fun part, hahaha -- the lonely inverse!)
DAVE BRY
"Valentine's Day expectations are a setup for heartbreak", The Guardian, February 14, 2016
There's a Goodwill store in Sarasota, Florida where they're asking people who have been through a breakup recently to donate their ex's old belongings for Valentine's Day. It's a great idea. They should rename themselves GoodRiddance instead of Goodwill.
JIMMY KIMMEL
Jimmy Kimmel Live, February 11, 2016
I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face, I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you ... and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
A Lick of Frost
Stay, little Valentine, stay,
Each day is Valentine's day.
LORENZ HART
"My Funny Valentine"
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ
attributed, Quotes To Remember
Speaking of prisoners, this should be an interesting Valentine's Day at the White House. For instance, will Donald Trump get flowers from Vladimir Putin? We don't know. And what about his wife Melania? Will they spend the night together or will she remain trapped like Rapunzel at their apartment in New York? Melania has a new line of greeting cards. They carry them at CVS: "Happy Valentine's Day" (open it) "Save Me."
JIMMY KIMMEL
Jimmy Kimmel Live!, February 8, 2017
On Valentine's Day, the Spirit Club plastered the school with red streamers and pink balloons and red and pink hearts. It looked like Clifford the Big Red Dog ate a flock of flamingoes and then barfed his guts up.
CAROLYN MACKLER
Vegan, Virgin, Valentine