Gift Messages
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Baby
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
– Herbert Hoover, former U.S. Director of the C.I.A.
Every child is born a genius.
– R. Buckminster Fuller, Canadian engineer
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
– Arthur C. Coxe, English writer (1900-)
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
– Carol Burnett, American comedienne
How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
– Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
– Peter Ustinov, British actor
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
– Peter De Vries, American novelist
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
– Peter Ustinov, British actor
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
– Woodrow Wyatt, British politician
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
– Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents
Babies are such a nice way to start people.
– Unknown
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
– Carl Sandburg, 20th century American poet
When you were born, you cried
And the world rejoiced.
– Native American
Ballads
I don’t want to set the world on fire. I just want to start a flame in your heart.
– The Ink Spots, I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire
Valentine, you make me smile with my heart.
– Rogers & Hart, My Funny Valentine
I’ve grown accustomed to her face. She almost makes the day begin.
– Lerner & Lowe, I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face
Life is always sunshine when the heart beats true.
– M. Watson, G.A. Norton & E. Burnett, My Melancholy Baby
I’ve got you deep in the heart of me.
– Cole Porter, I’ve Got You Under My Skin
You’re in my heart, you’re in my soul
You’ll be my breath, should I grow old.
– Rod Stewart
You are my lover, you’re my best friend. You’re in my soul.
– Rod Stewart
Above all, I want my arms around you.
– George & Ira Gershwin, Embraceable You
I’m gonna love you, like nobody’s loved you come rain or come shine.
– Johnny Mercer & Harold Arlen, Come Rain or Come Shine
The dearest things I know are what you are.
– Oscar Hammerstein II & Jerome Kern, All The Things You Are
Night and day you are the one.
Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.
– Cole Porter, Night and Day
You do something to me
Something that simply mystifies me.
– Cole Porter, You Do Something to Me
You’re the Nile,
You’re the Tower of Pisa,
You’re the smile
On the Mona Lisa…
– Cole Porter, You’re the Top!
40th Birthday
So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!
– Cicero, “On Old Age”
The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.
– Lucille Ball, American comedian
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
– Phyllis Diller, American comedian
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
– Bob Hope, American comedian
You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
– Bob Hope, American comedian
Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
– Unknown
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
– Ogden Nash
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
– Herbert Asquith
Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
– Alfred Victor Vigny, French man of letters
Middle age is when wherever you go on holiday you pack a sweater.
– Denia Norden, British humorist
Old age is no place for sissies.
– Bette Davis, film actress
Just say, “I’m not 40, I’m 18 with 22 years experience.“
– Unknown
Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
– Charles Schultz
Men are like wine: some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
– Pope John XXIII
Old age is always 15 years older than I am.
– Bernard Baruch, American financier
Growing old is something you do if you’re lucky.
– Groucho Marx, American comedian
Anyone can get old, all you have to do is live long enough.
– Groucho Marx, American comedian
Birthday
At 20, the will reigns; at 30, the wit; and at 40, the judgment.
– Benjamin Franklin, “Poor Richard’s Almanac”
Aging is mandatory. Maturity is optional.
– Chris Antonak
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
– Ogden Nash
Never trust anyone over thirty.
– Jerry Rubin, American activist
Age is a number and mine is unlisted.
– Anonymous
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
– Tom Stoppard, British playwright
Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
– Dorothy Fulheim, American writer
It’s sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.
– Brigitte Bardot
It’s not how old you are, it’s how hard you work at it.
– Jonah Barrington, British squash star
The older you get, the stronger the wind gets – and it’s always in your face.
– Jack Nicholson, American actor
Women over thirty are at their best, but men over thirty are too old to recognize it.
– Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
– John Glenn, U.S. senator
Business
What’s worth doing is worth doing for money.
– Joseph Donahue, quoted in The Official Rules
Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.
– Richard Ney, American writer
A billion here, a billion there, and soon you’re talking about real money.
– Everett Dirksen
Business has only two functions: marketing and innovation.
– Peter Drucker, American management expert
If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.
– J. Paul Getty
If you don’t drive your business you will be driven out of business.
– B.C. Forbes, American publisher
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
– Mark Twain
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
– George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
– Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
– Anonymous
Children
Children are God’s angels, sent by Him to brighten our world.
– The Ladies Home Journal, 1893
The soul is healed by being with children.
– Fyodor Dostoyevski, 19C Russian novelist
Children are a poor man’s riches
– English proverb
The child is the father of the man.
– William Wordsworth, 19th century English poet
Christmas
At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.
– Thomas Tusser, The Farmer’s Daily Diet
May you have the spirit of Christmas/ Which is peace,
The heart of Christmas/ Which is love.
– A.V. Hendricks
Our hearts they hold all Christmas dear,
And earth seems sweet and heaven seems near.
– Marjorie Pickhall, A Child’s Song of Christmas
Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.
– Christina Rossetti
Glory to God on the highest, and on Earth peace, good will toward men.
– Bible, Luke 2:12
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
– Clement C. Moore, “The Night Before Christmas”
For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son.
– Bible, John
Whoever believeth in Him shall have everlasting life.
– Bible, John
Be links no longer broken; Be sweet forgiveness spoken, under the holly bough
– Charles Mackay, 19th Century
Then ye be glad, good people, this night of all the year, and light ye up your candles:
His star is shining near.
– Unknown
Congratulations
When you’ve got it, flaunt it!
– Zero Mostel, in the film The Producers
The most difficult part of attaining perfection is finding something to do for an encore.
– Unknown
Success is that old ABC: ability, breaks and courage.
– Charles Luckman, American architect
Winning is not everything. It’s the only thing.
– Vince Lombardi, American pro football coach
Death
In my end is my beginning.
– T.S.Eliot, Four Quartets
And he will wipe out every tear form their eyes and death will be no more.
– Revelations 21:4
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
– Wallace Stevens, American poet
Death is not the last sleep. It is the final awakening.
– Walter Scott, Scottish novelist
Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.
– Oscar Wilde, English writer
Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
– Thomas Moore, English theologian
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
– Chinese Proverb
In eternity everything is just beginning.
– Elias Canetti, Bulgarian author
Into each life some rain must fall.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
– Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator, 1890
Life is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
– Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator, 1890
The only thing you take with you when you’re gone is what you leave behind.
– John Allston
It isn’t life that matters! It’s the courage you bring to it.
– Sir Hugh Walpole
The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them.
– Bible, Wisdom of Solomon
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
– Bible, Ecclesiastes
God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity.
– Bible, The Wisdom of Solomon
The journey is the reward.
– Chinese Proverb
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
– Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
– William Shakespeare
Brief is life but love is long.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet
It is a far far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
– Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
– Sophocles
Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s fingers.
– Hans Christian Anderson
He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.
– William Shakespeare
Joy shared is twice the joy.
Sorrow shared is half the sorrow.
– Unknown
May God hold you in the palm of his hand.
– Irish blessing
Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Education
Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away!
– Dr. Seuss, “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
– Dr. Seuss, “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
– Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady of the U.S.
Hold fast to your dreams for they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
– Anonymous
Live in the present, plan for the future, and profit from the past.
– Anonymous
Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open.
– Thomas Dewar
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
– Chinese Proverb
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
– Colin Wilson
Copy from one, it’s plagiarism; copy from two, it’s research.
– Wilson Mizner
If we knew what we were doing it wouldn’t be research.
– Unknown
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
– Plutarch
A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.
– Michael Garrett Marino
Farewell
Until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of his hand.
– Irish Blessing
The road goes on forever and the party never ends.
– Robert Earl Keen
All farewells should be sudden.
– Lord Byron
Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say good night till it be morrow
– William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
Father’s Day
A father is a banker provided by nature.
– French proverb
Children aren’t happy with nothing to ignore, and that’s what parents were created for.
– Ogden Nash, American humorist
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
– Bertrand Russell
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
– Margaret Mead
A man should have a child, plant a tree and write a book.
– Chinese proverb
It’s what you listen to as a child that you always come back to.
– Al Cohn, New York Times
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
– William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Flowers
When love came first to Earth,
the Spring spread rose-beds to receive him.
– Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet (1777-1844)
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature by which she indicates how much she loves us.
– Johann Von Goerthe, German poet (1749-1832)
A flower is the most eligible object in the world.
– Unknown
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
– Beverly Nichols, English writer
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
– Victor Hugo, French novelist
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
– William Carlos Williams, American poet
Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.
– Chinese Proverb
True friendship is like a rose: we don’t realize its beauty until it fades.
– Evelyn Loeb
Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.
– Japanese Proverbs
When words escape, flowers speak.
– Bruce W. Currie
The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.
– Rabindanath Tagore, Hindu poet
My love is like a red, red rose that’s newly sprung in June.
– Robert Burns, Scottish poet
Food
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner
– Lord Byron, Lord Juan
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness
– Elsa Schiapirelli
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
– Virginia Woolf, Engish novelist
He who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
– Samuel Johnson, English novelist
Friendship
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
– Charles Dickens
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
– Anonymous
The older you get, the more you need to know those who knew you when you were young.
– Unknown
Fear makes strangers of people who could be friends.
– Shirley MacLaine
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving, human soul on another.
– George Eliot
It is a luxury to be understood.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no security as undemanding and comfortable as the kind you feel among friends.
– Peter Bodo, in Tennis
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
– Marlene Dietrich, German film star
The road to a friend’s house is never long.
– Danish proverb
Your friendship is your needs answered.
– Danish proverb
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.
– Charles Caleb Colton, author
A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
– Frank Crane
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
– Aristotle
Friendship is when people know all about you but like you anyway.
– Anonymous
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
– Samuel Paterson
Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.
– Yiddish Proverb
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
– Walter Winchell
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Plant a seed of friendship;
reap a bouquet of happiness.
– Lois L. Kaufman
Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and just be my friend.
– Albert Camus, French Novelist
True friends, like ivy and the wall
Both stand together, and
together fall.
– Thomas Carlyle
The only rose without thorns is friendship.
– Unknown
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
– Emerson, 19C American writer
Friends are born, not made.
– Henry Brooks Adams
You’re good enough,
You’re smart enough,
And doggone it
People really like you!
– Stewart Smalley, Saturday Night Live
Get Well
A doctor can bury his mistakes; an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
– Frank Lloyd Wright.
He who has health has hope,
but he who has hope has everything.
– Arab proverb
Never go to a doctor’s office where the office plants have died.
– Erma Bombeck, American humorist
What counts is not the size of the dog in a fight –
It’s the size of the fight in the dog.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower, American president (1958)
People who feel well are sick people neglecting themselves.
– Jules Romain, French physician
When one has good health, it is not serious to be ill.
– Unknown
Your body is like a bar of soap.
It gradually wears down, from repeated use.
– Ritchie Allen, American baseball player (1970s)
God heals and the doctor takes the fees.
– Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac
Grandparents
Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.
– Anonymous
To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
– Victor Hugo
You don’t choose your family, they are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
– Bishop Desmond Tutu
You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from.
– Werner Erhard
Her children arise up, and call her blessed.
– Proverbs
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.
– William Makepeace Thackeray
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
– Welsh Proverbs
Grandparents are the ones who always love you and never yell at you no matter how many dumb things you do.
– Edward, age 10
Have children while you parents are still young enough to take care of them.
– Rita Rudner
Many make the household but only one the home.
– James Russell Lowell
Halloween
Enter now and join the dance, of creeping shadow and midnight dance.
– Adrian Rumble, “Come with Me Now”
Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees “Tonight is Halloween!”
– Dexter Kozen, “Halloween”
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
– William Shakespeare, “Macbeth”
Hanukkah
Colorful candles burning bright, each lit on eight very special nights.
– Unknown
I Love You 1
For every language, there is a way to say “I Love You.” To help you find just the right message to send with your order, we have included a comprehensive list of translations of “I Love You.”
A
| Language Afrikaans Afrikaans Albanian Albanian Alentejano (Portugal) Alsacien Amharic Arabic (to male) Arabic (to female) Arabic Arabic Arabic Assamese |
Translation Ek het jou liefe Ek is lief vir jou te dua te dashuroj Gosto De Ti, Porra! Ich hoan dich gear Afekrishalehou Ana Behibak Ana Behibek Ib’n hebbak Ana Ba-heb-bak nhebuk Moi tomak bhal pau |
B
| Language Basc Batak Bavarian Bengali Bengali Berber Bicol Bolivian Quechua Bulgarian Burmese |
Translation Nere Maitea Holong rohangku di ho I mog di narrisch gern Ami tomAy bhAlobAshi Ami tomake bhalobashi Lakh tirikh Namumutan ta ka qanta munani Obicham te chit pa de |
C
| Language Cambodian Cambodian Canadian French Cantonese Cantonese Catalan Catalan Catalan Catalan Cebuano Chickasaw Chinese Corsican Corsican Croatian Czech Czech |
Translation Bon sro lanh oon kh_nhaum soro_lahn nhee_ah Je t’aime Moi oiy neya Ngo oi ney T’estim (mallorcan) T’estim molt (I love you a lot) T’estime (valencian) T’estimo (catalonian) Gihigugma ko ikaw chiholloli (see Mandarin or Cantonese) Ti tengu cara (to female) Ti tengu caru (to male) LJUBim te miluji te MILUJU TE! (colloquial) |
D
| Language Danish Dutch Dutch |
Translation Jeg elsker dig Ik hou van jou Ik ben verliefd op je |
I Love You 2
For every language, there is a way to say “I Love You.” To help you find just the right message to send with your order, we have included a comprehensive list of translations of “I Love You.”
E
| Language Ecuador Quechua English English Esperanto Estonian Estonian |
Translation canda munani I love you I adore you Mi amas vin Mina armastan sind Ma armastan sind |
F
| Language Farsi Farsi Farsi (Persian) Filipino Filipino Finnish Flemish French French Friesian |
Translation Tora dust midaram Asheghetam doostat dAram Mahal kita Iniibig Kita Mina rakastan sinua Ik zie oe geerne Je t’aime Je t’adore Ik hald fan dei |
G
| Language Gaelic German Greek Greek (old) Greenlandic Gujrati |
Translation a gra agam ort Ich liebe Dich s'ayapo (Ego) philo su (“ego” for emphasis) Asavakit Hoon tane pyar karoochhoon |
H
| Language Hausa Hawaiian Hebrew Hebrew Hebrew Hebrew Hindi Hindi Hokkien Hopi Hungarian Hungarian |
Translation Ina sonki Aloha I’a Au Oe Ani ohev otach (male to female) Ani ohev otcha (male to male) Ani ohevet otach (female to female) Ani ohevet otcha (female to male) Mai tumase pyar karata hun (male to female) Mai tumase pyar karati hun (female to male) Wa ai lu Nu’ umi unangwa’ta Szeretlek Szeretlek te’ged |
I
| Language Icelandic Indonesian Indonesian Iranian Irish Italian Italian |
Translation Eg elska thig Saya cinta padamu (commonly used) Aku tjinta padamu (not often used) Mahn doostaht doh-rahm taim i’ ngra leat ti amo (for lover or spouse) ti voglio bene (for friend or relative) |
I Love You 3
For every language, there is a way to say “I Love You.” To help you find just the right message to send with your order, we have included a comprehensive list of translations of “I Love You.”
J
| Language Japanese Japanese Japanese Japanese Japanese Japanese Japanese Japanese Japanese Japanese Japanese Japanese Javanese |
Translation Kimi o ai shiteru Aishiteru Chuu shiteyo Ora omee no koto ga suki da Ore wa omae ga suki da Suitonnen Sukiyanen Sukiyo Watashi Wa Anata Ga Suki Desu Watashi Wa Anata Wo Aishithe Imasu Watakushi-wa anata-wo ai shimasu Suki desu (for new relationships) Kulo tresno |
K
| Language Kannada Kannada Kiswahili Korean Korean Korean Korean Korean Korean Korean Korean Korean Korean Korean Korean Korean Korean Korean Korean Kurdish |
Translation Naanu Ninnanu Preethisuthene Naanu Ninnanu Mohisuthene Nakupenda No-rul sarang hae (man to woman – casual relationship) Tangsinul sarang ha yo Tangshin-ul sarang hae-yo Tangsinul Sarang Ha Yo Tangshin-i cho-a-yo (i like you, in a romantic way) Nanun tangshinul sarang hamnida Nanun Dangsineul Mucheog Joahapnida Nanun Dangsineul Saranghapnida Nanun Gdaega Joa Nanun Gdaereul Saranghapnida Nanun Neoreul Saranghanda Gdaereul Hjanghan Naemaeum Alji Joahaeyo Saranghae Saranghaeyo Saranghapanida Ez te hezdikhem (?) |
L
| Language Lao Lao Latin Latin Latin (old) Latvian Lebanese Lingala Lisbon (Portugal) Lithuanian Lojban Luo |
Translation Koi muk jao Khoi huk chau Te amo Vos amo (Ego) amo te (“ego” for emphasis) Es milu tevi Bahibak Nalingi yo gramo-te bue’, chavalinha Tave Myliu mi do prami Aheri |
M
| Language Macedonian Madrid (Spain) Malay Malay Malay/Indonesian Malay/Indonesian Malayalam Malayalam Malayalam Malaysian Malaysian Malaysian Mandarin Marathi Marathi Marathi Mohawk |
Translation SAKAM TE! Me molas, tronca Saya cintakan mu Saya sayangkan mu Saya sayangkan engkau Saya cintakan awak Njyaan Ninne' Preetikyunnu Njyaan Ninne' Mohikyunnu Ngan Ninne Snaehikkunnu Saya Cintamu Saya Sayangmu Saya Cinta Kamu Wo ai ni me tujhashi prem karto (male to female) me tujhashi prem karte (female to male) Mi tuzya var prem karato Konoronhkwa |
I Love You 4
For every language, there is a way to say “I Love You.” To help you find just the right message to send with your order, we have included a comprehensive list of translations of “I Love You.”
N
| Language Navaho Ndebele Norwegian Norwegian |
Translation Ayor anosh’ni Niyakutanda Eg elskar deg (Nynorsk) Jeg elsker deg (Bokmaal) |
O
| Language Osetian |
Translation Aez dae warzyn |
P
| Language Pakistani Persian Polish Polish Polish Polish Portuguese Portuguese (Brazilian) Punjabi Punjabi |
Translation Mujhe Tumse Muhabbat Hai Tora dost daram Kocham Cie Ja cie kocham Yacha kocham Kocham Ciebie Amo-te Eu te amo Mai taunu pyar karda Main Tainu Pyar Karna |
Q - R
| Language Quenya Romanian Romanian Russian Russian Russian Russian (Malincaya) |
Translation Tye-mela’ne Te iu besc Te Ador Ya vas liubliu Ya tebya liubliu Ya polubeel tebya Ya Tibieh Lublue |
S
| Language Scot Gaelic Serbian Serbocroatian Serbocroatian Shona Sinhalese Sioux Slovak Slovene Spanish Spanish Srilankan Swahili Swedish Swiss-German Syrian/Lebanese Syrian/Lebanese |
Translation Tha gra / dh agam ort ljubim te Volim te Ljubim te Ndinokuda Mama oyata adarei Techihhila lubim ta ljubim te Te quiero Te amo Mama Oyata Arderyi Naku penda (followed by the person’s name) Jag älskar dig Ch’ha di gärn Bhebbek (to a female) Bhebbak (to a male) |
I Love You 5
For every language, there is a way to say “I Love You.” To help you find just the right message to send with your order, we have included a comprehensive list of translations of “I Love You.”
T
| Language Tagalog Tahitian Tamil Tcheque Telugu Telugu/India Thai Thai Thai Tunisian Turkish |
Translation Mahal kita Ua Here Vau Ia Oe Naan Unnai Kadalikiren MILUJI TÊ Neenu ninnu pra’mistu’nnanu Nenu Ninnu Premistunnanu Phom Rak Khun (formal, male to female) Ch’an Rak Khun (formal, female to male) Khao Raak Thoe (affectionate, loving) Ha eh bak Seni seviyorum |
U
| Language Ukrainian Ukrainian Ukrainian Ukrainian Urdu Urdu |
Translation ja tebe koKHAju (true love) ja vas koKHAju ja pokoKHAv tebe ja pokoKHAv vas Mujhe tumse mohabbat hai Main Tumse Muhabbat Karta Hoon |
V
| Language Vietnamese Vietnamese Vietnamese Vlaams |
Translation Em yêu anh (female to male) Anh yêu em (male to female) Toi yeu em Ik hue van ye |
W - X
| Language Welsh Welsh |
Translation ‘Rwy’n dy garu di Yr wyf i yn dy garu di (chwi) |
Y
| Language Yiddish Yiddish Yiddish Yugoslavian |
Translation Ich libe dich Ich han dich lib Ikh Hob Dikh Lib Ya te volim |
Z
| Language Zazi Zulu Zulu Zuni |
Translation Ezhele hezdege Mena Tanda Wena Ngiyakuthanda! Tom ho’ ichema |
Love
You complete me.
– Jerry McGuire
Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons.
– Kahlil Gibran
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
– Luciano de Crescenzo
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
– 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Love isn’t love
Until you give it away.
– Oscar Hammerstein, The Sound of Music.
The most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen, or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
– Helen Keller
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
– Unknown
“Unto those who love
Ungenerous Time bestows
A Thousand Summers”
– Unknown
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies,
When love is done.
– F. W. Bourdillon, Light
Love is the special feeling that brightens all our days,
And the secret to its meaning is found in simple ways.
– Kay Knudsen
Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart,
But somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart
– Kay Knudsen
Love is a feeling that can be given without regrets.
– Patricia Sierra
Love is the star that lights our souls throughout our life and beyond.
– Patricia Sierra
Beauty lies within the soul
and should always be set free
take a glimpse at love so true and pure
found only…within me
– Mara E. Dvorak, “The Soul Within”
Love is the beauty of the soul.
– St. Augustine
Love’s pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.
– A Haiku verse
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed,
for love is sufficient unto love.
– Kahlil Kibran
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
– John Heywood, English author (16th century)
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.
– Virgil
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
– Victor Hugo, French novelist
Love seeketh not itself to please, but for another gives its ease.
– William Blake, Songs of Experience
Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.
– Christina G. Rossetti
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
– Japanese Proverb
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
– Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
– Elizabeth Ashley, American film actor
Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.
– John Dryden, English poet
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
– Lynda Barry, American humorist/cartoonist
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
– George Sand, English author (1862)
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
Keep me as the apple of the eye,
Hide me under the shadow of thy wings.
– The Bible, Psalms 17:8
Love is the bridge between two hearts.
– Unknown
To love another person is to see the face of God.
– Victor Hugo
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
– Matthew, 6:21
More Love & Romance
You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.
– Albert Einstein
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
– Plato
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
– William Carlos Williams, American poet (1883-1963)
The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.
– Unknown
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
– Charlie Brown
Love is like an avalanche where you have to run for your life.
– John, Age 9
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
– Robert Frost
Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.
– Antoine de Saint Exupery
Love: You can’t start it like a car, you can’t stop it with a gun.
– David Letterman
The love we give away is the only one we keep.
– Elbert Hubbard
A heart that loves is always young.
– Greek Proverb
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
– John Dryden, English poet
The heart has its reasons that reason does not know.
– Pascal
Real love stories never have endings.
– Richard Bach
Love doesn’t make the world go ‘round. Love makes the ride worthwhile.
– Franklin P. Jones
If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
– Anonymous
Everything comes to us from others… To Be is to belong to someone.
– Jean Paul Satre
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
– Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
– Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
– Peter Ustinov, British actor
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
– Alexander Smith
One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
– Karl Menninger
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear.
– John 4:18
Love is not a matter of counting the years – it’s making the years count.
– Wolfman Jack Smith, American disc jockey
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
– Charles Dickens
World’s Greatest Lovers
You need to be kissed – and often – by someone who knows how.
– Rhett Butler to Scarlett O’Hara, Gone with the Wind
What a woman!
– Rhett Butler, Gone with the Wind
The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.
– Juliet to Romeo, Wm. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
Here’s looking at you kid.
– Humphrey Bogart to Ingrid Bergman, Casablanca
I was born when you kissed me.
I died when you left.
I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
– Humphrey Bogart to Gloria Grahame, In a Lonely Place
I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine.
– Tarzan to Jane, Wm. Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes
Take my breath away.
– Marc Anthony to Cleopatra, Wm. Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra
In a world full of ambiguity, a certainty like this comes but once in a lifetime.
– Clint Eastwood to Meryl Streep, The Bridges of Madison County
Make me immortal with a kiss.
– Dr. Faustus to Helen of Troy, Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus
This is the very ecstasy of love.
– Hamlet to Ophelia, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
– Kevin Costner to Susan Sarandon, Bull Durham
She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies.
– Lord Byron, Hebrew Melodies
Like music on the waters is thy sweet voice to me.
– Lord Byron, Stanzas for Music
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Robert Browning, Sonnets from the Portugese
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Robert Browning, Sonnets from the Portugese
But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love forever.
– Robert Burns, A Fond Kiss
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
– Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I am my beloved, and my beloved is me.
– The Bible, The Song of Solomon
We loved with a love that was more than love.
– Edgar Allan Poe, Annabelle Lee
Come live with me and be my love
and we will some new pleasures prove.
– John Donne
Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
– Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all the other pleasures are.
– John Dryden, English poet
Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
– Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score
Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.
– Robert Herrick, To Anthea
Marriage
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
– Fredrich Halm, 19th century German poet
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
– Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
– William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth
We can do not great things, only small things with great love.
– Mother Teresa
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
– Rabbi H. Schachtel, The Real Enjoyment of Living
Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.
– Groucho Marx, American comedian
If it weren’t for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
– Anonymous
A perfect wife is one who helps her husband with the dishes.
– Anonymous
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
– Andre Maurois
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
– Joseph Barth
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
– Andre Maurois, French writer
Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
– George Jessel
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
– Mae West, film actress
All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.
– Lord Byron
Marriage isn’t a word… it’s a sentence.
– Anonymous
If it weren’t for women, men would still be wearing last week’s socks.
– Cynthina Nelms
The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.
– Cher
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
– Dr. Joyce Brothers
I’ve been married three times, and each time I married the right person.
– Margaret Mead
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
– Phyllis Diller, American comedian
Let there be space between your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
– Kahlil Gibran
Mother’s Day
To a child’s ear, “mother” is magic in any language.
– Arlene Benedict, For Mother with Love
God sees us through our Mothers’ eyes and rewards us for our virtues.
– Ganeshan Venkatarman, Indian philosopher
Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face
– George Eliot, English novelist
Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of children.
– William Makepeace Thackeray, English novelist
A mother is she who can take the place of all others.
– Cardinal Mermillod
Mother is the bank where we deposit all our hurts and worries.
– Unknown
For mother’s sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet
My mother’s love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.
– Marc Chagall
For mother’s sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet
No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.
– Sarah Josepha Hale
The strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
– Barbara Kingsolver
Mothers are instinctive philosophers.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.
– George Herbert
A mother loves her children even when they least deserve to be loved.
– Kate Samperi, “Mothers”
Mother is the one we count on for the things that matter most of all.
– Katherine Butler Hathaway, “The Journals and Letters of the Little Locksmith”
When it comes to love, Mom’s the word.
Who ran to help me when I fell,
Or kissed the place to make it well?
…My mother.
– Ann Taylor
A mother understands what a child does not say.
– Jewish proverb
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
– Erich Fromm, psychologist
All I am I owe to my mother.
– George Washington, first U.S. president
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
– Irish proverb
Children aren’t happy with nothing to ignore, And that’s what parents were created for.
– Ogden Nash
Mother is the home we come from.
She is nature, soil, ocean.
– Erich Fromm, psychologist
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
– Dorothy C. Fisher (1879-1958)
She brings the sunshine into the house; it is now a pleasure to be there.
– Cecil Beaton, British fashion photographer (1904-80)
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
– Unknown
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
– Margaret Mead
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
– Unknown
My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.
– Groucho Marx
The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
– W.R. Wallace
God could not be everywhere and therefore He made mothers.
– Jewish Proverb
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
– Calvin
Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.
– William Shakespeare, King Lear
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
– Lin Yutang
New Quotations
LOVE
Love is an education in itself.
– Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady of the United States
Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!
– Robert Frost, American poet
True love is the unearned compliment, the gift forever giving.
– Rep. Burke Day, Georgia House of Representatives
Love is always saying you’re sorry.
– Rep. Burke Day
I love you more today than yesterday, less than tomorrow.
– Angela Gerardi
Love is life… and if you miss love, you miss life.
– Leo Buscaglia
To love someone is to be the only one to see a miracle invisible to others.
– Francois Mauriac
Whom we love best, to them we can say least.
– Proverb
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Love isn’t love until you give it away.
– Michael W. Smith, inspirational singer
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. And thus is winged Cupid painted blind.
– William Shakespeare
My love for you is like a pearl, in ways much more than one. It started small, and now is big; it’s growing never done.
– William N. Braswell, Jr., from This Pearl
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
– Trish Streeter
To understand the meaning of true love, you must first surrender to it.
– R. M. Hoffnagle
If you try to control love, it will turn to dust. If you let love control you, You can fly.
– Katharine Treibic, poet
FRIENDSHIP
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe that I deserved my friends.
– Walt Whitman, American poet
PICK-ME-UP
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.
– Jean Kerr
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex in the box?
– Steven Wright, American humorist
NEW BABY
Children re-invent your world for you.
– Susan Sarandon, American film actor
GET WELL
Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?
– Kevin Makay, Zen Contemplations
Pick Me Up
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
– St. Augustine
If you can laugh at it, you can live with it.
– Erma Bombeck
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
– Will Rogers
Mistakes are doorways to discovery.
– Unknown
Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.
– Japanese proverb
When you’re sad, learn something.
– Merton
If you don’t stand for something you’ll fall for anything.
– Anonymous
Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you’re swinging.
– Duke Snider
Faith is boundless and that which is truly holy is bound by faith…
– Christopher Rowe, “Masters Tie”
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his brother.
– Kahlil Gibran
Not everything I dislike should be destroyed, some of it should simply be moved farther away.
– Ashleigh Brilliant
Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadows.
– Helen Keller
Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.
– Charles Schultz, American cartoonist/humorist
When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist
The place of the wound is the place of the healing.
– Richard Bohr
Not everything that is faced can be changed,
But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
– James Baldwin, American novelist/writer
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
– Epicurus
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
– John Updike, U.S. novelist
Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.
– Langston Hughes, American poet
When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.
– Jiminy Crickett, Pinocchio
When all men think alike no one thinks very much.
– Walter Lippmann
This above all: to thine own self be true.
– William Shakespeare
Tomorrow is another day.
– Scarlett O’Hara, in Gone With the Wind
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
– Robert F. Kennedy
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!
– Emiliano Zapata, Revolutionary
The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
– Lao Tsu
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
– William Blake, English poet
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
– Eleanor Roosevelt, former U.S. First Lady
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
– Heinrich Heine
I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent.
– Ashleigh Brilliant
If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.
– Leo Rosten
Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out alive.
– Bugs Bunny
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
– Josh Billings
Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.
– Oscar Wilde
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
– Alan Saporta
Everything happens for a reason;
If you can’t find a reason for something,
there’s a reason for that.
– Chris Levi, Caribbean poet
All beginnings are hard.
– Chaim Potok, American novelist
Joy shared is twice the joy.
Sorrow shared us half the sorrow.
– Unknown
There is less to this than meets the eye.
– Tallulah Bankhead, American film actress
You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
– Wayne Gretzky
No goal is too high if you climb with care and confidence.
– Kristine Elises, 15
Dear Loved One: I’m working on all your problems. Please stay out of the way.
– Your Friend, GOD
And will you succeed? You will indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)
– Dr. Seuss
It’s not so important who starts the game, but who finishes the game.
– John Wooden
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
– Luciano de Crescenzo
Weeping may endure for a night,
but joy cometh in the morning.
– Psalms 30:5
You can’t have more bedbugs than a blanket-full.
– Spanish
Retirement
Working people have a lot of bad habits,
But the worst of these is work.
– Clarence Darrow, American lawyer & debater
The world is full of willing people. Some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
– Robert Frost, American poet
Work is just another of man’s diseases and prevention is better than cure.
– Heathcote Williams, British playwright
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
– Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell
Secretaries Day
Brilliance arises from ordinary people working in extraordinary ways.
Thanks for being extraordinary!
They say no matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.
I really appreciate your help.
I can do anything I think I can, but I can’t function without you!
Sincere thanks for all your help.
Someone once said that ingenuity plus work equals miracles.
Thanks for all the miracles you perform everyday!
They say a combined effort can break down the wall of impossibility.
Thanks for helping to break down the walls!
They say you’re only as good as the team behind you.
Thanks for “backing me up!”
Example isn’t the main thing influencing others – it’s only thing.
Thanks for setting such a great one.
They say that working together brings out the best in us.
Thanks for bringing out the best in me!
They say that very few burdens are heavy if everyone lifts.
Thanks for making the burden a lot lighter.
Tough times don’t last, but tough people do.
Thanks for hanging in there.
A dedicated team, they say, is the fuel for progress and growth.
Thanks for your dedication.
They say it takes two wings for a bird to fly.
I'm thankful you’re my other wing.
Thanksgiving
We give thanks for friends and family, for life’s good things, both large and small.
Real abundance is found when we join hands with those we love.
On this special day we give thanks for the bounty of goodness in our lives.
Give thanks for the kindly fruits of the earth. Happy Thanksgiving.
Peace and plenty to you this Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving is a circle of memories. Wishing you peace & plenty this holiday.
May your Thanksgiving be abundant with the gifts of love and friendship.
Thanksgiving is a time for remembering and appreciating the special people in our lives.
Wishing you peace and plenty. Happy Thanksgiving.
May your home be warmed by the love of family and friends.
Thanksgiving is a time for remembering and appreciating the special people in our lives.
Though miles may separate us, we are all bound by our thankfulness for family and friends.
Valentine’s Day
VINTAGE SENTIMENTS
For the nostalgic or sentimental, try a vintage sentiment from our collection of messages borrowed from actual 19th and early 20th century valentines.
I like your lips, I like your style
But most of all I like your smile.
Let soft love beaming from thine eyes
Speak rapture to my heart.
Plenty of love,
Tons of kisses,
Hope some day
To be your Mrs.
I ever will in you remain,
So let your heart return again.
May every blessing be thy lot,
I only ask “Forget Me Not.”
Thy sparkling eyes of blackest jet
Have lured me into Cupid’s net.
Your eyes are blue,
Your heart is true,
Your lips divine
When they met mine.
More closely bound than friend or brother,
One cannot live without the other.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Carnations are sweet
And so are you.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
In my life
There’s a place for you.
Accept, Dear Girl, this loving heart of mine,
And be my fashionable valentine.
My love is like a cabbage
Divided into two,
The leaves I give to others
But the heart I give to you.
I bet you a cuddle, I bet you a kiss
I bet you’ll never guess who sent you this.
Cupid by the comet’s blaze,
Set Lovers’ hearts on fire.
When days are dark and friends are few,
Remember me as I do you.
Kisses spread disease, it’s stated.
Kiss me quick! I’m vaccinated.
My darling girl
My chosen one,
I dream of you
And you alone.
If this sender you can name
All these kisses you can claim.
Valentine, O Valentine,
I’ll be your love and you’ll be mine.
