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Quotes
At 20, the will reigns; at 30, the wit; and at 40, the judgement.
- Benjamin Franklin, "Poor Richard's Almanac"
If youth only knew; if age only could!
- FTD customer
We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse!
- FTD customer
Aging is mandatory. Maturity is optional.
- Chris Antonak
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
- Ogden Nash
Never trust anyone over thirty.
- Jerry Rubin, American activist
Age is a number and mine is unlisted.
- Anomymous
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
- Tom Stoppard, British playwright
Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
- Dorothy Fulheim, American writer
It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot
It's not how old you are, it's how hard you work at it.
- Jonah Barrington, British squash star
The older you get, the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
- Jack Nicholson, American actor
Women over thirty are at their best, but men over thirty are too old to recognize it.
- Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
- John Glenn, U.S. senator
Birthday 40+
So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!
- Cicero, "On Old Age"
The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.
- Lucille Ball, American comedian
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
- Phyllis Diller, American comedian
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
- Bob Hope, American comedian
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
- Bob Hope, American comedian
Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.
- FTD customer
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
- Unknown
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
- Ogden Nash
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
- Herbert Asquith
Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
- Alfred Victor Vigny, French man of letters
Middle age is when wherever you go on holiday you pack a sweater.
- Denia Norden, British humorist
Old age is no place for sissies.
- Bette Davis, film actress
Just say, "I'm not 40, I'm 18 with 22 years experience."
- Unknown
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
- Charles Schultz
Men are like wine: some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
- Pope John XXIII
Old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Bernard Baruch, American financier
Growing old is something you do if you're lucky.
- Groucho Marx, American comedian
Anyone can get old, all you have to do is live long enough.
- Groucho Marx, American comedian
Congratulations
When you've got it, flaunt it!
- Zero Mostel, in the film The Producers
The most difficult part of attaining perfection is finding something to do for an encore.
- Unknown
Success is that old ABC: ability, breaks and courage.
- Charles Luckman, American architect
Winning is not everything. It's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi, American pro football coach
Death
watching over us
and protecting us
with his angel's wings
- FTD Customer
In my end is my beginning.
- T.S.Eliot, Four Quartets
Those who live in the Lord never see each other for the last time.
- FTD customer
Only time moves on to the next scene. Memory remains part of the heart forever.
- FTD customer
And he will wipe out every tear form their eyes and death will be no more.
- Revelations 21:4
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
- Wallace Stevens, American poet
Death is not the last sleep. It is the final awakening.
- Walter Scott, Scottish novelist
Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.
-Oscar Wilde, English writer
Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
-Thomas Moore, English theologian
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese Proverb
In eternity everything is just beginning.
- Elias Canetti, Bulgarian author
Into each life some rain must fall.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warior and orator, 1890
Life is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warior and orator, 1890
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
- John Allston
It isn't life that matters! It's the courage you bring to it.
- Sir Hugh Walpole
The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them.
- Bible, Wisdom of Solomon
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
- Bible, Ecclesiastes
God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity.
- Bible, The Wisdom of Solomon
The journey is the reward.
- Chinese Proverb
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
- Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet
It is a far far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
- Sophocles
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
- Hans Christian Anderson
He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.
- William Shakespeare
Death is just a beginning of another life.
- Upa. Surya Dharma Win Ong & FTD customer
Joy shared is twice the joy.
Sorrow shared is half the sorrow.
- Unknown
May God hold you in the palm of his hand.
- Irish blessing
Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Flowers
Roses are often lovely to behold, but I'd rather be holdin' you!
- FTD.com visitor
When love came first to Earth,
the Spring spread rose-beds to receive him.
- Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet (1777-1844)
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature by which she indicates how much she loves us.
- Johann Von Goerthe, German poet (1749-1832)
A flower is the most eligible object in the world.
- Unknown
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
- Beverly Nichols, English writer
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo, French novelist
If I had known sooner that flowers could be sent,
My own true love might not have went.
- FTD customer
Roses are red
Violets are blue
In my life
There's a place for you.
- Unknown
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Carnations are sweet
And so are you.
- Unknown
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
- William Carlos Williams, American poet
Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.
- Chinese Proverb
True friendship is like a rose: we don't realize its beauty until it fades.
- Evelyn Loeb
Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.
-Japanese Proverbs
When words escape, flowers speak.
- Bruce W. Currie
The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.
- Rabindanath Tagore, Hindu poet
My love is like a red, red rose that's newly sprung in June.
- Robert Burns, Scottish poet
Flowers are works of art created by Nature for our pleasure.
- FTD Customer
Get well
Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?
- Kevin Makay, Zen Contemplations
A doctor can bury his mistakes; an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
He who has health has hope,
but he who has hope has everything.
- Arab proverb
Never go to a doctor's office where office plants have died.
- Erma Bombeck, American humorist
What counts is not the size of the dog in a fight -
It's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, American president (1958)
People who feel well are sick people neglecting themselves.
- Jules Romain, French physician
When one has good health, it is not serious to be ill.
- Unknown
Your body is like a bar of soap.
It gradually wears down, from repeated use.
- Ritchie Allen, American baseball player (1970s)
God heals and the doctor takes the fees.
- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
Love n
Romance
You complete me.
- Jerry McGuire
Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons.
- Kahlil Gibran
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
- Luciano de Crescenzo
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
The bond that holds
two hearts in love,
Receives its strength
from God's great Love.
- FTD customer
Love can never be tamed. It can only be felt with a true heart.
- FTD customer
Love is not losing freedom, it is sharing freedom with another.
- FTD customer
Many things in life will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart.
- FTD customer
Love is a feeling that can be given without regrets.
- FTD customer
You've got to dance like nobody's looking, and love like it's never going to hurt.
-FTD customer
Real love does not destroy you... It constructs you.
- FTD customer
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; It extinguishes the small, yet enkindles the great.
- FTD customer
The times we spend together are the best times that I know, I am a better person, because you've made me so.
- FTD customer
To the world you are someone, but to someone you are the world.
- FTD customer
There is no greater pain than not being with the one you love.
- FTD customer
Love isn't love
Until you give it away.
- Oscar Hammerstein, The Sound of Music.
The most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen, or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
- Unknown
"Unto those who love
Ungenerous Time bestows
A Thousand Summers"
- Unknown
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies,
When love is done.
- F. W. Bourdillon, Light
Love is the special feeling that brightens all our days,
And the secret to its meaning is found in simple ways.
- Kay Knudsen
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart,
But somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart
- Kay Knudsen
Life is a journey, and love is what makes that journey worthwhile.
- FTD Customer
Love is a feeling that can be given without regrets.
- Patricia Sierra
Love is the star that lights our souls throughout our life and beyond.
- Patricia Sierra
Beauty lies within the soul
and should always be set free
take a glimpse at love so true and pure
found only.......within me
- Mara E. Dvorak, "The Soul Within"
Love is the beauty of the soul.
- St. Augustine
Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.
- A Haiku verse
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed,
for love is sufficient unto love.
- Kahlil Gibran
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Heywood, English author (16th century)
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.
- Virgil
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo, French novelist
Love seeketh not itself to please, but for another gives its ease.
- William Blake, Songs of Experience
Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.
- Christina G. Rossetti
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
- Japanese Proverb
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
- Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
- Elizabeth Ashley, American film actor
Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.
- John Dryden, English poet
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
- Lynda Barry, American humorist/cartoonist
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
- George Sand, English author (1862)
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
Keep me as the apple of the eye,
Hide me under the shadow of thy wings.
- The Bible, Psalms 17:8
Love is the bridge between two hearts.
- Unknown
Love is like quicksilver in the hand.
Leave the fingers open and it stays.
Clutch it and it darts away.
- FTD Customer
To love another person is to see the face of God.
- Victor Hugo
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- Matthew, 6:21
You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
- William Carlos Williams, American poet (1883-1963)
The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.
- Unknown
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown
Love is like an avalanche where you have to run for your life.
- John, Age 9
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery
Love: You can't start it like a car, you can't stop it with a gun.
- David Letterman
The love we give away is the only one we keep.
- Elbert Hubbard
A heart that loves is always young.
- Greek Proverb
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
- John Dryden, English poet
The heart has its reasons that reason does not know.
- Pascal
Real love stories never have endings.
- Richard Bach
Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love makes the ride worthwhile.
- Franklin P. Jones
If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
- Anonymous
Everything comes to us from others...To Be is to belong to someone.
- Jean Paul Satre
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
- Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
- Peter Ustinov, British actor
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
- Alexander Smith
One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
- Karl Menninger
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear.
- John 4:18
Love is not a matter of counting the years - it's making the years count.
- Wolfman Jack Smith, American disc jockey
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
- Charles Dickens
You need to be kissed - and often - by someone who knows how.
- Rhett Butler to Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind
What a woman!
- Rhett Butler, Gone with the Wind
The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.
- Juliet to Romeo, Wm. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Here's looking at you kid.
- Humphrey Bogart to Ingrid Bergman, Casablanca
I was born when you kissed me.
I died when you left.
I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
- Humphrey Bogart to Gloria Grahame, In a Lonely Place
I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine.
- Tarzan to Jane, Wm. Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes
Take my breath away.
- Marc Anthony to Cleopatra, Wm. Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra
In a world full of ambiguity, a certainty like this comes but once in a lifetime.
- Clint Eastwood to Meryl Streep, The Bridges of Madison County
Make me immortal with a kiss.
- Dr. Faustus to Helen of Troy, Marlowe's Dr. Faustus
This is the very ecstasy of love.
- Hamlet to Ophelia, William Shakespeare's Hamlet
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
- Kevin Costner to Susan Sarandon, Bull Durham
She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies.
- Lord Byron, Hebrew Melodies
Like music on the waters is thy sweet voice to me.
- Lord Byron, Stanzas for Music
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Robert Browning
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Robert Browning
Sonnets from the Portugese
But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love forever.
- Robert Burns, A Fond Kiss
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I am my beloved, and my beloved is me.
- The Bible, The Song of Solomon
We loved with a love that was more than love.
- Edgar Allan Poe, Annabelle Lee
Come live with me and be my love
and we will some new pleasures prove.
- John Donne
Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all the other pleasures are.
- John Dryden, English poet
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
- Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score
Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.
- Robert Herrick, To Anthea
Valentine Quotes
I like your lips, I like your style
But most of all I like your smile.
Let soft love beaming from thine eyes
Speak rapture to my heart.
Plenty of love,
Tons of kisses,
Hope some day
To be your Mrs.
I ever will in you remain,
So let your heart return again.
May every blessing be thy lot,
I only ask "Forget Me Not."
Thy sparkling eyes of blackest jet
Have lured me into Cupid's net.
Your eyes are blue,
Your heart is true,
Your lips divine
When they met mine.
More closely bound than friend or brother,
One cannot live without the other.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Carnations are sweet
And so are you.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
In my life
There's a place for you.
Accept, Dear Girl, this loving heart of mine,
And be my fashionable valentine.
My love is like a cabbage
Divided into two,
The leaves I give to others
But the heart I give to you.
I bet you a cuddle, I bet you a kiss
I bet you'll never guess who sent you this.
Cupid by the comet's blaze,
Set Lovers' hearts on fire.
When days are dark and friends are few,
Remember me as I do you.
Kisses spread disease, it's stated.
Kiss me quick! I'm vaccinated.
My darling girl
My chosen one,
I dream of you
And you alone.
If this sender you can name
All these kisses you can claim.
Valentine, O Valentine,
I'll be your love and you'll be mine.
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