Saint Valentine’s Day (commonly shortened to Valentine’s Day) is an annual holiday held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. The holiday is named after one or more early Christian martyrs named Valentine and was established by Pope Gelasius I in 496 AD. It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as “valentines”). The holiday first became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.

The sending of Valentines was a fashion in nineteenth-century Great Britain, and, in 1847, Esther Howland developed a successful business in her Worcester, Massachusetts home with hand-made Valentine cards based on British models. The popularity of Valentine cards in 19th century America, where many Valentine cards are now general greeting cards rather than declarations of love, was a harbinger of the future commercialization of holidays in the United States. It’s considered one of the Hallmark holidays.

The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentines are sent each year worldwide, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year, behind Christmas. The association estimates that, in the US, men spend on average twice as much money as women.

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Valentine Quotes

Use one of these famous Valentine’s Day love quotes to express your love with a bunch of red roses. These romantic quotations will never fail to impress your Valentine and will make them realize how much you love them. These love quotes are funny, romantic and thought provoking and will surely make your beloved feel special and cared for. So read to know more about what famous people had to say about the insanity called love!

Anonymous says:

A kiss is something you cannot give without taking and cannot take without giving.

Anonymous says:

“Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction”

Albert Einstein says:

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love”

Anonymous says:

“Love doesn’t grow on trees like apples in Eden – it’s something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.”

Anonymous says:

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

Henry Van Dyke says:

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.

Kay Knudsen says:

Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.

Anonymous says:

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.

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