Susanna Massa

The early tradition of Valentine’s Day says this was the date when birds began to choose their mates, only later did the romance extend to the human population. The first reference in print to Valentine’s Day is found in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The parlement of foules [The Parliament of Fowls], circa 1381:

For this was on seynt Volantynys day Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese his make.

[For this was Saint Valentine’s day, when every bird of every kind comes to this place to choose his mate.]

Here are some Valentine’s Day sayings :

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
– St. Augustine

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

Love looks not with eyes, but with the mind.
–William Shakespeare

To love another person is to see the face of God.
– Les Miserables

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
– Saint-Exupery

True love is like a fine wine, the older the better.
– Fred Jacob

For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
– Rosemonde Gerard

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire

– François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
– Jules Renard