{"id":737,"date":"2016-02-14T07:36:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T12:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=737"},"modified":"2023-02-07T14:31:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T19:31:14","slug":"happy-st-valentines-day-from-our-wordsmith-cupids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"Happy St. Valentine&#8217;s Day from our wordsmith-cupids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7926\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/heart-157895_960_720-300x282.png\" alt=\"heart-157895_960_720\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/heart-157895_960_720-300x282.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/heart-157895_960_720-450x424.png 450w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/heart-157895_960_720.png 765w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>So, you have pen in hand and are ready to inscribe a short note on your loved one&#8217;s card. But all you can think of is <em>&#8220;Roses are red\u2026&#8221;!??<\/em> Not to worry: the wordsmith-cupids here at <em>By George<\/em> have pulled together 20 of our favourite quotes on &#8216;Love&#8217; so that you may whisper them on your special date, raise them as a toast, or write them in your St. Valentine&#8217;s card(s).<\/p>\n<p>If you are feeling especially amourous, here\u2019s a romantic suggestion: instead of buying the &#8216;over-the-top&#8217; Hallmark card, buy a blank card with a meaningful visual on the cover. Pen a few personal thoughts that you can then punctuate with a remarkable quote.<\/p>\n<p>We hope these quotes help to make your St. Valentine&#8217;s Day!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The heart that loves is always young.&#8221; &#8211; Greek Proverb<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.&#8221; &#8211; Victor Hugo<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.&#8221; &#8211; William Shakespeare<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.&#8221; &#8211; Leo Tolstoy<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.&#8221; &#8211; Francois Mauriac<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.&#8221; &#8211; Sophocles<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;L\u2019amour fait tourner le monde.&#8221; \/ &#8220;It\u2019s love that makes the world go around!&#8221; &#8211; Anonymous<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Love doesn\u2019t make the world go \u2018round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.&#8221; &#8211; Franklin Jones<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.&#8221; &#8211; Rainer Maria Rilke<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;A man is only as good as what he loves.&#8221; &#8211; Saul Bellow<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Omnia vincit Amor: et nos cedamus Amori!&#8221; \/ &#8220;Love conquers all: and let us too surrender to love.&#8221; &#8211; Virgil<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.&#8221; &#8211; HW Beecher<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.\/ I love thee to the depth and breadth and height\/ My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight\/ For the ends of being and ideal grace.&#8221; &#8211; Elizabeth Browning<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by the qualities we possess.&#8221; &#8211; Suard<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;What is life without the radiance of love?\u2026 I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have lived and loved.&#8221; &#8211; JCF vonSchiller<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Come live with me and be my love,\/ And we will all the pleasures prove\/ That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,\/ Woods or steepy mountain yields.&#8221; &#8211; Christopher Marlowe<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.&#8221; &#8211; Vi Putnam<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.&#8221; &#8211; Antoine de saint Exupery<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.&#8221; &#8211; from \u2018The Marriage of Figaro\u2019<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods.&#8221; &#8211; Plato<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Chris George<\/strong> provides reliable PR &amp; GR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer and experienced communicator? Call 613-983-0801 @\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>. Contact: <a href=\"mailto:ChrisG.George@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ChrisG.George@gmail.com<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=14503\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Return to the menu for the By George St Valentine\u2019s Wish<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, you have pen in hand and are ready to inscribe a short note on your loved one&#8217;s card. But all you can think of is &#8220;Roses are red\u2026&#8221;!?? Not to worry: the wordsmith-cupids here at By George have pulled together 20 of our favourite quotes on &#8216;Love&#8217; so that you may whisper them on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15300,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/15300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}