Amore
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie -
That's amore.
When an eel bites your hand and that's not what you planned -
That's a moray.
When our habits are strange and our customs deranged -
That's our mores.
When your horse munches straw and the bales total four -
That's some more hay.
When Othello's poor wife, she gets stabbed with a knife -
That's a Moor, eh?
When a Japanese knight used a sword in a fight -
That's Sa...mur...ai.
Interpreting Dreams
After she woke up, a woman told her husband, "I just dreamed that you gave me a pearl necklace for Valentine's day. What do you think it means?"
"You'll know tonight." he said.
That evening, the man came home with a small package and gave it to his wife. Delighted, she opened it - to find a book entitled "The Meaning Of Dreams".
Origins of Valentines
As early as the fourth century B.C., the Romans engaged in an annual young man's rite of passage to the god Lupercus. The names of teenage women were placed in a box and drawn at random by adolescent men. Thus, a man was assigned a woman companion, for their mutual entertainment… for the duration of a year, after which another lottery was staged.
Determined to put an end to this 800-year-old practice, the early church fathers sought a "lovers'" saint to replace the deity Lupercus. They found a likely candidate in Valentine, a bishop who had been martyred some 200 years earlier.
Traditionally, mid-February was a time for Romans to meet and court prospective mates. Young men offered women they admired and wished to court handwritten greetings of affection on February 14. The cards acquired St. Valentine's name.
As Christianity spread, so did the Valentine's Day card. The earliest one was sent in 1415 by Charles, Duke of Orleans, to his wife while he was a prisoner in the Tower of London. It is now in the British Museum.
The first American publisher of Valentines was printer and artist Esther Howland. Her elaborate lace cards of the 1870s cost from five to ten dollars, with some selling for as much as thirty-five dollars. Since that time, the Valentine card business has flourished. Except for Christmas, Americans exchange more cards on Valentine's Day than at any other time of the year. (NOTE FROM SUNRISE SOFTWARE: Feb. 14 was St. Valentine's feast day until it was dropped from the liturgical calendar in 1969.)
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Excerpted from "Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday things," Charles Panati, Harper & Row, NY 1987 pp 50-52.
The American Film Institute's 100 Greatest Love Stories
The jurors were asked to consider the following criteria while making their selections:
Feature-Length Fiction Film: The film must be in narrative format, typically more than 60 minutes in length.
American Film: The film must be in the English language with significant creative and/or financial production elements from the United States.
Love Story: Regardless of genre, a romantic bond between two or more characters, whose actions and/or intentions provide the heart of the film’s narrative.
Legacy: Films whose "passion" have enriched America’s film and cultural heritage while continuing to inspire contemporary artists and audiences.
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50-74
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#1 CASABLANCA (1942) GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
WEST SIDE STORY (1961) ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953)AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER (1957)
THE WAY WE WERE (1973) DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965) IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
LOVE STORY (1970) CITYLIGHTS (1931)
ANNIE HALL (1977)
MY FAIR LADY (1964)
OUT OF AFRICA (1985)
THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951) WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939)
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)
MOONSTRUCK (1987)VERTIGO (1958)
GHOST (1990)
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)
PRETTY WOMAN (1990)
ON GOLDEN POND (1981)
NOW, VOYAGER (1942)
KING KONG (1933)
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY... (1989)
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THE LADY EVE (1941)
THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940)
AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN (1982)
SWING TIME (1936)
THE KING AND I (1956)
DARK VICTORY (1939)
CAMILLE (1937)
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991)
GIGI (1958)
RANDOM HARVEST (1942)
TITANIC (1997)
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951)
NINOTCHKA (1939)
FUNNY GIRL (1968)
ANNA KARENINA (1935)
A STAR IS BORN (1954)
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (1993)
TO CATCH A THIEF (1955)
SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (1961)
LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1972)
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946)
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SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1998)
BRINGING UP BABY (1938)
THE GRADUATE (1967)
A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951)
SABRINA (1954)
REDS (1981)
THE ENGLISH PATIENT (1996)
TWO FOR THE ROAD (1967)
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967)
PICNIC (1955)
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944)
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (1961)
THE APARTMENT (1960)
SUNRISE (1927)
MARTY (1955)
BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)
MANHATTAN (1979)
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951)
WHAT'S UP, DOC? (1972)
HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971)
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995)
WAY DOWN EAST (1920)
ROXANNE (1987)
THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR (1947)
WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942)
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THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT (1995)
THE QUIET MAN (1952)
THE AWFUL TRUTH (1937)
COMING HOME (1978)
JEZEBEL (1939)
THE SHEIK (1921)
THE GOODBYE GIRL (1977)
WITNESS (1985)
MOROCCO (1930)
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING (1955)
NOTORIOUS (1946)
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING (1988)
THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966)
THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (1995)
WORKING GIRL (1988)
PORGY AND BESS (1959)
DIRTY DANCING (1987)
BODY HEAT (1981)
LADY AND THE TRAMP (1955)
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK (1967)
GREASE (1978)
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1939)
PILLOW TALK (1959)
JERRY MAGUIRE (1996)
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Sunrise Software's
Favorite Love Stories
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Almost Famous
Adam's Rib
(The) African Queen
French Kiss
(The) Miracle Worker
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Truly, Madly, Deeply
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Oscar & Lucinda
Princess Bride
(The) Truth About Cats & Dogs
(The) Yearling
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Gigi
How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days
It Happened One Night
Ninotchka
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84 Charing Cross Road
Enemy Mine
An Ideal Husband
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Lion In Winter
Monsoon Wedding
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I Wish I'd Said That!
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There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Mother Teresa
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Bertrand Russell
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The loving are the daring.
Bayard Taylor
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. - Victor Hugo
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The best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts,
Of kindness and of love. William Wordsworth
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The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Grow old along with me,
the best is yet to be.
Robert Browning
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He that falls in love with himself
will have no rivals.
Ben Franklin
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Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
Cathy Carlyle
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Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu
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Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
Leo Buscaglia
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The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
Jacques Benigne Bossuel
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. - William Thackeray
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Fulton J. Sheen
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We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
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There is no instinct like that of the heart. Lord Byron
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You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. - Sam Keen
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Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones
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