“Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!” ―Thomas Hood

“Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee.” ―English phrase on poesy rings

“Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.” ―Saint Augustine

“Today is Valentine’s Day – or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!” ―Jay Leno

“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” ―Judy Garland

“Love is the only gold.” ―Lord Alfred Tennyson

“Love is not finding someone to live with; it’s finding someone you can’t live without.” ―Rafael Ortiz

“Valentine’s Day: the holiday that reminds you that if you don’t have a special someone, you’re alone.” ―Lewis Black

“Valentine’s day has gotten blown way out of proportion. Valentine’s Day just used to be for your girlfriend or your wife but now everyone’s like ‘Oh, happy valentine’s day!’ I even got a Valentine’s Day card from my grandmother. How ridiculous is that? We stopped having sex years ago!” ―Greg Giraldo

“February is a month of months, and there is one special day: Valentine’s Day on the 14th. I know it’s still a ways off, but I just can’t wait. Janice, if you’re watching, will you make me the happiest man in the world and get out of my apartment?” ―Ed Helms

“Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.” ―W. Somerset Maugham

“Women are made to be loved, not understood.” ―Oscar Wilde

“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.” ―Author Unknown

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.” ―William Shakespeare

“We loved with a love that was more than love.” ―Edgar Allan Poe

“The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.” ―Blaise Pascal

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” ―Robert Frost

“She walks in Beauty, like the night
Of cloudness climes and starry skies,
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes…” ―Lord Byron

“I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” F. Scott Fitzgerald

“All Love is sweet. Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.” ―Percy Bysshe Shelley

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” ―Plato

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.” ―Sophocles

“But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love for ever.” ―Robert Burns

“To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.” ―Lao-Tzu

“Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.” ―Mirabeau

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” ―Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.” ―Margaret Anderson

“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.” ―Robert Browning

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.” ―Joan Crawford

“The course of true love never did run smooth.” ―William Shakespeare

“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” ―Franklin Jones

“Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.” ―Robert Frost

“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” ―Sam Keen

“You know you are in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ―Dr. Seuss

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.” ―Agatha Christie

“I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you.” ―Roy Croft

“Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times.” ―Rita Rudner

“All you need is love.” ―John Lennon

“If you would be loved, love and be lovable.” ―Benjamin Franklin

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

“There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. ―Friedrich Nietzsche

“I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you’re in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.” ―Bob Barker

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” ―Albert Schweitzer

“I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.” ―Audrey Hepburn

“Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.” ―Lao Tzu

“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” ―Mark Twain

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” ―Buddha

“Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.” ―Buddha

“I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it ‘content.’” ―Lauren Bacall

“America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.” ―Walter Cronkite

“Health is not valued till sickness comes.” ―Dr. Thomas Fuller

“To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.” ―William Londen

“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” ―Jim Rohn

“Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.” ―Publilius Syrus

“The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.” ―Thomas Jefferson

“Body: A thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors and a misfit from the start.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.” ―Mark Twain

“A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” ―Irish Proverb

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” ―Socrates

“Be as you wish to seem.” ―Socrates

“By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.” ―Socrates

“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” ―Socrates

“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.” ―Socrates

“It is not living that matters, but living rightly.” ―Socrates

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” ―Socrates

“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.” ―Socrates

“A multitude of books distracts the mind.” ―Socrates

“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.” ―Socrates

“The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.” ―Socrates

“Let him that would move the world, first move himself.” ―Socrates

“In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.” ―Socrates

“The hottest love has the coldest end.” ―Socrates

“If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.” ―Socrates

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.” ―Socrates

“To find yourself, think for yourself.” ―Socrates

“Know thyself.” ―Socrates

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” ―Socrates

“Be as you wish to seem.” ―Socrates

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” —Aristotle

“One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.” —Iris Murdoch

“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” —Ashley Montagu

“Remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life.” —Marcus Aurelius

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” —Mark Twain

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” —Abraham Lincoln

“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” —Helen Keller

“The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.” —Benjamin Franklin

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” —Thomas Jefferson

“Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead.” —Scottish Proverb

“Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.” —Dale Carnegie