My congratulations on  St. Valentine’s Day

Love quotations

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet (Plato)

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate, he who loves, finds the door open (Rabindranath Tagore)

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies (Aristotel)

We don’t love to be loved; we love to love (Leo Buscaglia)

Love is the greatest refreshment in life (Picasso)

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods (Plato)

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination (Voltaire)

Attention is the most basic form of love, through it we bless and are blessed (John Tarrant)

Do you know the history of this holiday? There are a lot of legends about St. Valentine and celebration of the holiday. Read one of them.

One of the most popular legend says, Valentine or Valentinus lived in Rome when  the country was under the reign of Emperor Claudius II. It is said that Claudius engaged Rome in several unpopular and bloody campaigns. To maintain a strong army, Claudius continuously needed to recruit soldiers. But to his disappointment Claudius found that most men were unwilling to join army because of their strong attachment with their wives and their families. To get rid of the problem, Claudius banned all marriages and engagements in Rome. A romantic at heart priest, Valentine, secretly arranged marriages of young boys and girls and defied this unjustified and callous order of Claudius. When the Emperor discovered this defiance, he put Valentine behind bars and he was finally executed on February 14, about 270 AD. For his great service, Valentine was named a saint after his death.

                                  Match English love idioms and their meaning

1. Love conquers all	a. the romantic part of your life
2. Love is blind	b. a cliff from where lovers jump into a canyon together
3.Love is where you find it	c. love is strong enough to overcome all problems
4. Lovelies	d. people do not see the faults in their lovers
5. Love life	e. ladies, women, girls
6. Lovers’ Leap	f. love happens, love is not planned

                                        Match Russian Equivalents

1. Above all, love all	a. Любовь побеждает всё
2. Love will find the way	b. Любить – значит дарить
3.Love makes the world go round	c. Превыше всего любви волшебство
4. Love conquers all	d. Без любви, как без солнца, нельзя прожить
5. Love is giving	e. Для любви нет преград