VALENTINES DAY

Valentine's Day in United States

Quick Facts

Valentine's Day is an occasion to celebrate romantic love.

Local names

Name	Language
Valentine's Day	English
Día de Valentín	Spanish
יום ולנטיין	Hebrew
عيد الحب	Arabic
발렌타인 데이	Korean
Valentinstag	German

Valentine's Day 2014

Friday, February 14, 2014

Valentine's Day 2015

Saturday, February 14, 2015
List of dates for other years

Valentine's Day is celebrated on February 14. It is a festival of romantic love and many people give cards, letters, flowers or presents to their spouse or partner. They may also arrange a romantic meal in a restaurant or night in a hotel. Common symbols of Valentine's Day are hearts, red roses and Cupid.

Valentine's Day: one of the most romantic days of the year.

What do people do?

Many people celebrate their love for their partner by sending cards or letters, giving gifts or flowers and arranging meals in restaurants or romantic nights in hotels. People who would like to have a romantic relationship with somebody may use the occasion to make this known, often anonymously. Valentine's cards are often decorated with images of hearts, red roses or Cupid. Common Valentine's Day gifts are flowers chocolates, candy, lingerie and champagne or sparkling wine. However, some people use the occasion to present lavish gifts, such as jewelry. Many restaurants and hotels have special offers at this time. These can include romantic meals or weekend breaks.

Public life

Valentine's Day is not a public holiday. Government offices, stores, schools and other organizations are open as usual. Public transit systems run on their regular schedule. Restaurants may be busier than usual as many people go out for an evening with their spouse or partner. Valentine's Day is also a very popular date for weddings.

Background

There are a number of Saints called Valentine who are honored on February 14. The day became associated with romantic love in the Middle Ages in England. This may have followed on from the Pagan fertility festivals that were held all over Europe as the winter came to an end. Traditionally, lovers exchanged hand written notes. Commercial cards became available in the mid nineteenth century.

Symbols

The most common Valentine's Day symbols are the heart, particularly in reds and pinks, and pictures or models of Cupid. Cupid is usually portrayed as a small winged figure with a bow and arrow. In mythology, he uses his arrow to strike the hearts of people. People who have fallen in love are sometimes said to be 'struck by Cupid's arrow. Other symbols of Valentine's Day are couples in loving embraces and the gifts of flowers, chocolate, red roses and lingerie that couples often give each other.

Quotes About Valentine FEB 14 Day

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is all about telling the love of your life how much you enjoy their company, their quirky habits and those little things they do for you on a day-to-day basis. To make things a little creative this year, we've rounded up 30 of our favourite funny, thoughtful and just straight up sappy quotes about that mushy feeling we call love.

“This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.” 
― Aberjhani, Elemental

“What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.” 
― Aberjhani

“Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.” 
― Aberjhani

“This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.”
― Aberjhani

QUOTES ABOUT VALENTINES DAY FEB 14, 2014

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


I claim there ain't
Another Saint
As great as Valentine.
~Ogden Nash


Trip over love, you can get up.  Fall in love and you fall forever.  ~Author Unknown


Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.  ~Author Unknown


A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown

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"


We're all a little weird.  And life is a little weird.  And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love.  ~Robert Fulghum,True Love


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.
~Michael Drayton


Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.  ~William Shakespeare


kisses are a better fate
than wisdom.
~e.e. cummings


If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?  ~Author Unknown


Who, being loved, is poor?  ~Oscar Wilde


In melody divine,
My heart it beats to rapturous love,
I long to call you mine.
~Author Unknown


Grow old with me!  The best is yet to be.  ~Robert Browning


Without love, what are we worth?  Eighty-nine cents!  Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.  ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye


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


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.  ~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


True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights.  If you hear bells, get your ears checked.  ~Erich Segal


Love is what you've been through with somebody.  ~James Thurber, quoted inLife magazine, 1960


Love is being stupid together.  ~Paul Valery


For twas not into my ear you whispered
But into my heart
Twas not my lips you kissed
But my soul
~Judy Garland


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


My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key.
~Frederick Saunders


Love is the greatest refreshment in life.  ~Pablo Picasso


What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.  ~Pearl Bailey


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)"


Falling in love is so hard on the knees.  ~Aerosmith


Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.  ~Voltaire


The most beautiful view is the one I share with you.  ~Author Unknown


The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.  ~Stephen King


My whole heart for my whole life.  ~French saying used on poesy rings


Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.  ~Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon


Love is metaphysical gravity.  ~R. Buckminster Fuller


If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.  ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi