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At least three different Saint Valentines, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early martyrologies under date of 14 February. One is described as a priest at Rome, another as bishop of Terni, province Umbria, Italy. Both suffered in the second half of the third century and to have been buried on the Flaminian Way at different distances from the city.

Of the third Saint Valentine, who suffered in Africa with a number of companions, nothing further is known.

The popular customs associated with Saint Valentine's Day undoubtedly had their origin in a conventional belief generally received in England and France during the Middle Ages, that on 14 February, i.e. half way through the second month of the year, the birds began to pair.

For this was sent on Seynt Valentyne's day Whan every foul cometh ther to choose his mate" is written in a poem "A Parliament of Fowls" known also as"The Parliament of Birds" written by Geiffrey Chaucer (1343?-1400).

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Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
~ Robert Browning

If music be the food of love, play on.
~ William Shakespeare

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
~ Lamartine

When love is not madness, it is not love.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
~ Albert Camus

It's not the men in my life that count -- it's the life in my men.
~ Mae West

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
~ Cynthia Heimel

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
~ Albert Einstein
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
~ Cynthia Heimel

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
~ Judith Viorst

At the touch of Love every one becomes a poet.
~ Plato

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 may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.
~ Sean Connery

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.
~ Joyce Cary

Love is a game that two can play and both win.
~ Eva Gabor

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
~ Ben Hecht

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

When love is not madness, it is not love.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee.
~ English Proverb

I've fallen in love many times... always with you.
~ Author Unknown

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
~ Zora Neale Hurston

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
~ George Moore

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