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Today, Valentine's Day is a day set aside to celebrate love, friendship, giving, and caring.

On February 14th, greetings are mailed or delivered by hand to convey "love messages" to parents, neighbors, friends, and lovers. Today, paper, lace, silk and satin hearts, flowers, chocolates, greeting cards, and jewelry are used to supplement the traditional handwritten notes associated with Valentine's Day. Some people even like to send anonymous greetings to keep the recipient wondering who sent them.

Over the years, Valentine's Day has become a time for people to express their love and concern for the special people in their lives. Even more importantly, the observance of this day encourages a spirit of goodwill and respect for fellow human beings. Valentine's Day truly is a time of love, friendship, giving, and caring.

Share in the romance of the season with roses and flower gifts for Valentine's Day. Featuring a large assortment of flower arrangements, rose bouquets and specialty items to choose from. Show your Valentine that you care with flowers.

History of Valentine's Day
Valentines Day started during the rule of Emperor Claudius II. Rome had been involved in many bloody and unpopular wars. Claudius the Cruel, as he was known, was having a difficult time getting soldiers to join the military. He believed the reason was because Roman men didn't want to leave their loves or families. As a result, Claudius cancelled all marriages and engagements in Rome.

There was a Christian priest named Valentine who defended love in the empire. Valentine began to secretly marry couples despite the Emperor's orders. When Emperor Claudius was informed of these ceremonies, Valentine was sent to prison where he remained until his death on February 14 in the year 270.

It wasn't until hundreds of years later that Valentine's Day began to develop as we know it. At the time of Valentine's death, Christianity was beginning to take control of Europe. The Church sought to do away with pagan holidays. Valentine's Day came to replace a mid-February fertility festival called Lupercalia. In honor of his sacrifice for love, Valentine was made a saint and Lupercalia renamed in his honor.

Today, the tradition of honoring St. Valentine continues. The themes of love and fertility taken from the ancient meanings of the holiday have endured and evolved into today's contemporary theme.

Valentine's Day Quotations
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
~ Victor Hugo

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
~ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
~ Rabbi Julins Gordon

The most beautiful view is the one I share with you.
~ Unknown

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

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald

Love's a thing that's never out of season.
~ Barry Cornwall

Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.
~ Unknown

Love is patient and kind; Love is not jealous or conceited; Love is not proud or selfish; Love is not ill-mannered; Love is not irritable; Love does not hold a grudge; Love is not happy with evil; Love is happy with the truth; Love never gives up; Its faith, hope and patience never fail.
~1 Corinthians 13, 4-7~

"I love you" in different languages
Afrikaans: Ek het jou liefe
Afrikaans: Ek is lief vir jou
Albanian: te dua
Albanian: te dashuroj
Alentejano(Portugal): Gosto De Ti, Porra!
Alsacien: Ich hoan dich gear
Amharic: Afekrishalehou
Arabic: Ana Behibak (to a male)
Arabic: Ana Behibek (to a female)
Arabic: Ib'n hebbak
Arabic: Ana Ba-heb-bak
Arabic: nhebuk
Arabic: Ohiboke (male to female)
Arabic: Ohiboka (female to male)
Arabic: Ohibokoma (male or female to two males or two females)
Arabic: Nohiboke (more than one male or female to female)
Arabic: Nohiboka (male to male or female to male)
Arabic: Nohibokoma (m. to m. or f. to two males or two females)
Arabic: Nohibokom (m. to m. or f. to more than two males)
Arabic: Nohibokon (m. to m. or f. to more than two females)
Arabic: (not standard) Bahibak (female to male)
Arabic: (not standard) Bahibik (male to female)
Arabic: (not standard) Benhibak (more than one male or female to male)
Arabic: (not standard) Benhibik (male to male or female to female)
Arabic: (not standard) Benhibkom (m. to m. or female to more than one male)
Assamese: Moi tomak bhal pau
Basc: Nere Maitea
Bavarian: I mog di narrisch gern
Bengali: Ami tomAy bhAlobAshi
Bengali: Ami tomake bhalobashi
Berber: Lakh tirikh Bolivian Quechua qanta munani
Bulgarian: Obicham te
Burmese: chit pa de Cambodian Bon sro lanh oon
Cambodian: kh_nhaum soro_lahn nhee_ah
Canadian French: Sh'teme (spoken, sounds like this)
Cantonese: Moi oiy neya
Cantonese: Ngo oi ney Catalan T'estim (mallorcan)
Catalan: T'estim molt (I love you a lot)
Catalan: T'estime (valencian)
Catalan: T'estimo (catalonian)
Cebuano: Gihigugma ko ikaw
Chickasaw: chiholloli (first "i" nasalized)
Chinese: (see the entries for mandarin or cantonese!)
Corsican: Ti tengu cara (to female)
Corsican: Ti tengu caru (to male)
Croatian: LJUBim te
Czech: miluji te
Czech: MILUJU TE! (colloquial form)
Danish: Jeg elsker dig
Dutch: Ik hou van jou
Dutch: Ik ben verliefd op je
Ecuador Quechua: canda munani
English: I love you
English: I adore you
Esperanto: Mi amas vin
Estonian: Mina armastan sind
Estonian: Ma armastan sind
Farsi: Tora dust midaram
Farsi: Asheghetam
Farsi: (Persian) doostat dAram
Filipino: Mahal ka ta
Filipino: Iniibig Kita
Finnish: Mina" rakastan sinua
Flemish: Ik zie oe geerne
French: Je t'aime French Je t'adore
Friesian: Ik hald fan dei
Gaelic: Ta gra agam ort
German: Ich liebe Dich
Greek: s'ayapo (spoken s'agapo, 3rd letter is lower case 'gamma')
Greek: (old) (Ego) philo su (ego is only needed for emphasis)
Greenlandic: Asavakit Gujrati Hoon tane pyar karoochhoon.
Hausa: Ina sonki
Hawaiian: Aloha I'a Au Oe
Hebrew: Ani ohev otach (male to female)
Hebrew: Ani ohev otcha (male to male)
Hebrew: Ani ohevet otach (female to female)
Hebrew: Ani ohevet otcha (female to male)
Hindi: Mai tumase pyar karata hun (male to female)
Hindi: Mai tumase pyar karati hun (female to male)
Hindi: Main Tumse Prem Karta Hoon Hindi Mai Tumhe Pyar Karta Hoon
Hindi: Main Tumse Pyar Karta Hoon
Hindi: Mai Tumse Peyar Karta Hnu
Hindi: Mai tumse pyar karta hoo Hokkien Wa ai lu
Hungarian: Szeretlek
Hungarian: Szeretlek te'ged
Icelandic: Eg elska thig
Indi: Mai Tujhe Pyaar Kartha Ho
Indonesian: Saya cinta padamu (Saya, commonly used)
Indonesian: Saya cinta kamu ( " )
Indonesian: Saya kasih saudari ( " )
Indonesian: Aku tjinta padamu (Aku, not often used)
Indonesian: Aku cinta padamu ( " )
Indonesian: Aku cinta kamu ( " )
Iranian: Mahn doostaht doh-rahm
Irish: taim i' ngra leat
Italian: ti amo (if it's a relationship/lover/spouse)
Italian: ti voglio bene (if it's a friend, or relative)
Japanese: Kimi o ai shiteru
Japanese: Aishiteru
Japanese: Chuu shiteyo
Japanese: Ora omee no koto ga suki da
Japanese: Ore wa omae ga suki da
Japanese: Suitonnen
Japanese: Sukiyanen
Japanese: Sukiyo
Japanese: Watashi Wa Anata Ga Suki Desu
Japanese: Watashi Wa Anata Wo Aishithe Imasu
Japanese: Watakushi-wa anata-wo ai shimasu
Japanese: Suki desu (used at 1st time, like for a start, when you are not yet real lovers)
Javanese: Kulo tresno
Kiswahili: Nakupenda
Klingon: qabang
Klingon: qaparHa' (depends where in the galaxy you are)
Korean: No-rul sarang hae (man to woman in casual relation)
Korean: Tangsinul sarang ha yo
Korean: Tangshin-ul sarang hae-yo
Korean: Tangsinul Sarang Ha Yo
Korean: Tangshin-i cho-a-yo (i like you, in a romantic way)
Korean: Nanun tangshinul sarang hamnida
Korean: Nanun Dangsineul Mucheog Joahapnida
Korean: Nanun Dangsineul Saranghapnida
Korean: Nanun Gdaega Joa
Korean: Gdaereul Saranghapnida
Korean: Nanun Neoreul Saranghanda
Korean: Gdaereul Hjanghan Naemaeum Alji
Korean: Joahaeyo Korean Saranghae
Korean: Saranghaeyo
Korean: Saranghapanida Kurdish Ez te hezdikhem (?)
Lao: Koi muk jao
Lao: Khoi huk chau Latin Te amo
Latin: Vos amo Latin (old) (Ego) amo te (ego, for emphasis)
Latvian: Es milu tevi (Pronounced "Ess tevy meeloo")
Lebanese: Bahibak Lisbon lingo gramo-te bue', chavalinha
Lithuanian: TAVE MYLIU (ta-ve mee-lyu)
Lojban: mi do prami Luo (Kenya) Aheri
Macedonian: SAKAM TE!
Madrid: lingo Me molas, tronca
Malay: Saya cintakan mu
Malay: Saya sayangkan mu
Malay/Indonesian: Saya sayangkan engkau
Malay/Indonesian: Saya cintakan awak
Malayalam: Njyaan Ninne' Preetikyunnu
Malayalam: Njyaan Ninne' Mohikyunnu
Malayalam: Ngan Ninne Snaehikkunnu
Malaysian: Saya Cintamu Malaysian Saya Sayangmu
Malaysian: Saya Cinta Kamu
Mandarin: Wo ai ni (Wo3 ai4 ni3 in tonal notation)
Mohawk: Konoronhkwa
Navaho: Ayor anosh'ni
Ndebele: (Zimbabwe) Niyakutanda
Norwegian: Eg elskar deg (Nynorsk)
Norwegian: Jeg elsker deg (Bokmaal) (pronouncedyai elske dai)
Osetian: Aez dae warzyn
Pakistani: Mujhe Tumse Muhabbat Hai
Persian: Tora dost daram
Pig Latin: Ie Ovele Ouye
Polish: Kocham Cie
Polish: Ja cie kocham
Polish: Yacha kocham
Polish: Kocham Ciebie
Portuguese: Amo-te
Portuguese: (brazilian) Eu te amo
Punjabi: Mai taunu pyar karda
Punjabi: Main Tainu Pyar Karna
Romanian: Te iu besc
Romanian: Te Ador
Russian: Ya vas liubliu Russian Ya tebya liubliu
Russian: Ya polubeel s'tebya
Russian: (malincaya) Ya Tibieh Lublue
Scot: Gaelic Tha gra\dh agam ort
Serbian: ljubim te (I kiss you/love you, 'lj' pronounced like 'll' in Spanish, one sound, 'ly'ish)
Serbocroatian: Volim te
Serbocroatian: Ljubim te
Sinhalese: Mama oyata adarei
Sioux: Techihhila
Slovak: lubim ta
Slovene: ljubim te
Spanish: Te quiero
Spanish: Te amo
Srilankan: Mama Oyata Arderyi
Swahili: Naku penda (followed by the person's name)
Swedish: Jag a"lskar dig Swiss-German Ch'ha di ga"rn
Syrian/Lebanese: BHEBBEK (to a female)
Syrian/Lebanese: BHEBBAK (to a male)
Tagalog: Mahal kita
Tahitian: Ua Here Vau Ia Oe
Tamil: Ni yaanai kaadli karen (You love me)
Tamil: n^An unnaik kAthalikkinREn (I love you)
Tamil: Naan Unnai Kadalikiren
Tcheque: MILUJI TE^
Telugu: Neenu ninnu pra'mistu'nnanu
Telugu/india: Nenu Ninnu Premistunnanu
Thai: Phom Rak Khun (formal, male to female)
Thai: Ch'an Rak Khun (formal, female to male)
Thai: Khao Raak Thoe (affectionate, sweet, loving)
Thai: Phom Rak Khun
Tunisian: Ha eh bak *
Turkish: Seni seviyo*rum (o* means o)
Turkish: Seni Seviyurum
Turkish: Seni Seviyorum
Ukrainian: ja tebe koKHAju (real true love)
Ukrainian: ja vas koKHAju Ukrainian ja pokoKHAv tebe
Ukrainian: ja pokoKHAv vas
Urdu: Mujhe tumse mohabbat hai
Urdu: Main Tumse Muhabbat Karta Hoon
Vietnamese: Em ye^u anh (woman to man)
Vietnamese: Toi yeu em
Vietnamese: Anh ye^u em (man to woman)
Vlaams: Ik hue van ye
Vulcan: Wani ra yana ro aisha
Welsh: 'Rwy'n dy garu di.
Welsh: Yr wyf i yn dy garu di (chwi)
Yiddish: Ich libe dich
Yiddish: Ich han dich lib
Yiddish: Ikh Hob Dikh Lib
Zulu: Mena Tanda Wena
Zulu: Ngiyakuthanda!
Zuni: Tom ho' ichema

Valentine's Day Humor
Valentine's Day, a time of dating, romance and love. Here are a few jokes based around the themes of Valentines Day. Some are short and soppy, others are pretty cold and harsh. Most point out the differences between men and women and the complexities of dating in the nineties. So, sit back, read and hopefully enjoy.

10 Things not to do at dinner on your Valentine's Day date
a.. Recite your dating history. Improvise. Include pets.
b.. Stand up every five minutes, circle your table with your arms outstretched, and make aeroplane sounds.
c.. Pull out a harmonica and play blues songs when your date begins talking about themselves.
d.. When ordering, inquire whether the restaurant has any live food.
e.. Ask your date how much money they have with them.
f.. If they are paying, order the most expensive thing on the menu. Take one bite. Yawn.
g.. Slide under the table. Take your plate with you.
h.. Beg your date to tattoo your name on their derriere. Keep bringing the subject up.
i.. Insist that the waiter cut your food into little pieces. In a similar vein, insist that he take a bite of everything on the plate, to make sure no one poisoned it.
j.. Lick your plate. Offer to lick theirs.

10 Things women are unlikely to say
a.. Go ahead and leave the seat up, I don't mind.
b.. Could our relationship be more physical? I'm tired of just being friends.
c.. I think hairy butts and backs are sexy.
d.. Hey, did you smell that one!
e.. Please don't throw that old T-shirt away, the holes in the armpits are just too cute.
f.. This diamond ring is way too big.
g.. I don't want to know what you're feeling.
h.. Nah, Matt Damon is ugly.
i.. Why would I want flowers on Valentine's Day?
j.. I'm wrong, you must be right again.

10 Things woman should know about men
a.. No, you can't have the remote control.
b.. We don't know anything about handbags. Don't even ask.
c.. We did water the plants. They died anyway. Nobody knows why this happens.
d.. Things you should let us do alone: figuring out where we are, watching TV, playing computer games, smoking cigars and picking out the beer.
e.. If you must take us out shopping, never, ever leave us alone in a lingerie store. All the old ladies make mean faces at us and this only adds to our discomfort.
f.. It's in neither your interest nor ours to take the Quiz together.
g.. Silence does not need to be filled with discussions about "us" and "the relationship."
h.. Burping and farting really do increase our mana.
i.. You probably don't want to know what we're thinking about.
j.. We really don't know where the other sock is.

Short & Silly:
What did the paper clip say to the magnet?
"I find you very attractive."

What did the chocolate syrup say to the ice cream?
"I'm sweet on you!"

Why did the cannibal break up with his girlfriend?
"She didn't suit his taste!"

What do farmers give their wives on Valentine's Day?
"Hog and kisses!"

What did one light bulb say to the other?
"I love you a whole watt!"

What did the caveman give his wife on Valentine's Day?
" Ughs and kisses!"

Student of Psychology
A very shy guy goes into a pub on Valentine's Day night and sees a beautiful woman sitting alone at the bar. After an hour of gathering up his courage he finally goes over to her and asks tentatively, "Um, would you mind if I brought you a drink?" She responds by yelling, at the top of her lungs, "No, I won't sleep with you tonight!"

Everyone in the pub is now staring at them. Naturally, the guy is hopelessly and completely embarrassed and he slinks back to his table totally red faced.

After a few minutes, the woman walks over to him and apologizes. She smiles at him and says, "I'm really sorry if I embarrassed you just then. You see, I'm a graduate student in psychology and I'm studying how people respond to embarrassing situations."

To which he responds, at the top of his lungs, "What do you mean $200?!?!"

Last minute Valentine's Day advice
a.. Don't tell your partner about that perfect present you almost bought.
b.. Don't give the same Valentine card you gave your partner last year.
c.. Don't buy the wrong size/brand of anything.
d.. Don't forget to wear clean underwear.
e.. Don't tell your date you forgot your wallet again.
f.. Don't leave your date alone with your parents, flatmates or pet.
g.. Don't buy your partner household appliances for Valentine's Day.
h.. Don't wipe your nose on your sleeve.
i.. Don't give your partner an engagement ring that was meant for someone else!
j.. Don't club baby fur seals.

Valentine's Day Trivia
This Day in History on Valentine's Day
(Source: This Day in History, on the Internet)

Have you ever wondered what happened on Valentine's Day besides the traditional hearts and flowers thing? Well, read on and see.

1803 - Moses Coats celebrated St. Valentine's Day by receiving a patent on the apple parer. Makes a delightful gift! Buy a pair of parers.
1849 - The first photograph of a U.S. President was taken by Matthew Brady in New York City. President James Polk was the subject of the famous picture.
1899 - Voting machines for use in federal elections were approved by the U.S. Congress on this day.
1912 - The first diesel engine submarine was commissioned in Groton, CT.
1918 - The motion picture, "Tarzan of the Apes", was released just in time for Valentine's Day! The film was based on a series of stories written by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
1932 - The U.S. won the first bobsled competition at the Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid, NY. Twelve other teams competed in the event.
1940 - The first porpoise born in captivity arrived at Marineland in Florida. No, it was not named Flipper.
1941 - Frank Leahy was named head football coach at Notre Dame.
1957 - Lionel Hampton's only major musical work, "King David", made its debut this night at New York's Town Hall. The four-part symphony jazz suite was conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos.
1966 - Rick Mount of Lebanon, IN, became the first high school, male athlete to be pictured on the cover of "Sports Illustrated".
1966 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers set a National Basketball Association record as he reached a career high of 20,884 points after seven seasons as a pro basketball player.
1972 - The musical, "Grease", opened on this day at the Eden Theater in New York City.
1979 - Twenty-year-old rookie, Don, of the New York Rangers, scored his first goal in the National Hockey League. It came on his first ever NHL shot! We figure the probability of that happening must be in the many million-to-one category.
1980 - A big day for Dan Rather, as Walter Cronkite announced his retirement from the "CBS Evening News" on this night.
1984 - British rocker, Elton John, married Renata Blauel in Sydney, Australia on this day.
1987 - The largest crowd to see an NBA game gathered at the Silverdome in Pontiac, MI, as 57,745 folks watched the hometown Detroit Pistons beat the Philadelphia 76ers by a score of 125-107.
1987 - Dick Baldwin surpassed Adolph Rupp's record for the most career coaching wins as Broome County Community College won game number 876 for Baldwin, who was with the college for forty years. Broome County Community College is in Upstate New York.

Birthday Board: February 14
1894 - Jack Benny (Benjamin Kubelsky) (the stingy, violin-playing, perennial-39-year-old comedian of radio, television and vaudeville)
1913 - Mel Allen (Israel) (sportscaster: New York Yankees, This Week in Baseball; "How about that!")
1921 - Hugh Downs (TV host: The Jack Paar Show, Concentration, Today, 20/20)
1921 - Skeezix Wallet (comic strip character: discovered on the doorstep of Walt and Phyllis Wallet in the strip: Gasoline Alley)
1923 - Donna Atwood (ice skater)
1923 - Jay Hebert (golfer) 1923 - Cesare Siepi (opera basso)
1925 - Elliot Lawrence (Broza) (jazz bandleader)
1928 - Frank Borman (former NASA astronaut; former head of former Eastern Airlines)
1931 - Phyllis McGuire (singer: group: The McGuire Sisters: Sincerely, Sugartime)
1931 - Boom Boom (Bernie) Geoffrion (hockey: Montreal Canadiens: NHL MVP [1961])
1934 - Florence Henderson (opera singer, actress: The Brady Bunch)
1935 - Mickey (Mary) Wright (golf champion: U.S. Open [1958, 1959, 1961, 1964], Nabisco Dinah Shore [1973], LPGA [1958, 1960, 1961, 1963])

So, there you have it. Some absolutely worthless trivia information about Valentine's Day.