tattoos of quotes

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. ~Saint Aurelius Augustine


A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away with the centuries, although it serves as food for every speech. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


I plan on living forever. So far, so good. ~Author Unknown


Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink. ~W.H. Davies


How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. ~Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel


The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams. ~Simone de Beauvoir


When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. ~Abraham Lincoln


From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair. ~Andre Gide, The Counterfeiters, 1925


The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera. ~W. Eugene Smith


A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. ~Andre Maurois


I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them. ~W. Somerset Maugham


I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. ~Henry Ward Beecher


Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~Robert Frost


Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. ~Edward Vernon Rickenbacker


I have come to the feeling about television the way I do about hamburgers: I eat a lot of hamburgers and I don't remember a single one of them. ~John Barrow, 1973


History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. ~Alexis de Tocqeville, 1856


We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. ~Frederick W. Faber


If you add to the truth, you subtract from it. ~The Talmud


It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. ~Noel Coward, Blithe Spirit


I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days. ~Bill Dana