A Valentine's Day potpourri

A potpourri of Valentine’s Day thoughts from famous writers:

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out. – Elizabeth Bowen
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. – Maya Angelou
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A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. – Rupert Brooke
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The Eskimos have fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them.  There ought to be as many for love. – Margaret Atwood
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.  – A. A. Milne

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And finally, a thought from a “Valentine’s Day” birthday celebrant, comedian Jack Benny, who was born on this date in 1894.    Benny once said:  “It’s not so much knowing when to speak as it is knowing when to pause.”

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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