"LOVE IS THE TENDER TRAP" BUT IT'S ALSO "A MANY SPLENDORED THING"

These love-themed songs were popular in 1955. (I remember them well!)

Get ready!  Valentine's Day will be here soon.

At school, did you have to participate in that hated ritual of creating love-themed cards to be randomly handed out on that special day?

And, there were always those students who believed that they would get good grades if they presented their teachers roses or frilly cards. Yuk!

I did like to get V-day cards myself once in a while, but I was always too shy to give one to my latest "crush."

LOVE QUOTATIONS

Love by Roy Blount Jr. in Alphabet Soup:

"The old Frisian version was luve, which may make us think of Woody Allen's character in Annie Hall, trying to convey to the Diane Keaton character how much he loves her by saying, 'I looove you.  I lerve you ...'"

Love by Ambrose Bierce in The Devil's Dictionary

"A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influence under  which he incurred the disorder..."

Love (and Marriage) by Bennett Cerf in Treasury of Atrocious Puns

"An unfortunate husband in Hackensack socked his (beloved) wife with a bowl of Jello. She emerged unscathed if messy, then had him arrested for carrying a congealed weapon."

Love by Charles Earle Funk in Heavens to Betsy!

"Love me, love my dog!"  A phrase In other words which may mean, "Whatever my faults, you must put up with them."

This is attributed to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux in the twelfth century who wrote in Latin:

"Qui me amat, amat et canem meum!"

An egoist's Love boasts by Williaqm H. Roylance  in Complete Book of Insults, Boasts, and Riddles

"Girls love me for the rest of their daze."

"I wish I had a split personality so I could marry myself."

"I believe in love at first sight.  I can still remember when I saw my first mirror." 

Love according to Merriam-Webster's Desk Dictionary (1995)

love - noun - 

1. Strong affection

2. Warm attachment (like love of the sea)

3.  Attraction based on sexual desire.

4.  A beloved person.

5.  Unselfish and benevolent concern for others,

6.  Score of zero in tennis.

love - verb -

1. Cherish.

2.  Feel a passion, devotion, or tenderness for.

4.  Caress.

5.  To take pleasure in.

Love according to a Russian scientist

Love is a chemical reaction!

What do you think?

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