tattoos of sayings and quotes

Concerning football playing, I protest to you it may rather be called a friendly kind of fighting, rather than recreation. ~Author Unknown


Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions. ~Brendan Francis


The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind. ~H.L. Mencken, Prejudices, Fourth Series, 1924


A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858


To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. ~Thomas Watson, Sr.


My thoughts are free to go anywhere, but it's surprising how often they head in your direction. ~Author Unknown


Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries. ~Saul Bellow, about America


Never confuse thoughtlessness with malice. ~Robert Charles Whitehead


I love to go shopping. I love to freak out salespeople. They ask me if they can help me, and I say, "Have you got anything I'd like?" Then they ask me what size I need, and I say, "Extra medium." ~Steven Wright


There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. ~Ecclesiastes 2:24


One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless. ~Liz Smith


Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular. ~E.V. Lucas


SOURCES: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Answers.com, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Merriam-Webster Online, North West Learning Grid Know-It-All, Thesaurus.com, Wikipedia, WordNet by Princeton University Cognitive Science Laboratory, yourDictionary.com, or otherwise noted. Tag line: an ornamental, instructive, or strikingly effective ending for a speech, story, etc.; sometimes a short, familiar quotation used as such an ending; a final line (as in a play or joke), especially one that serves to clarify a point or create a dramatic effect; a reiterated phrase identified with an individual, group, or product.


Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. ~John Archibald Wheeler


How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves. ~Thomas a Kempis


We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with. ~D.H. Lawrence


I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits. ~Jean Jacques Rousseau


This morning, prompted by increasing concerns about terrorism, oil prices reached a record high as the cost of a barrel of crude is a whopping $44.34. Wow, it seems shocking that a product of finite supply gets more expensive the more we use it. Now the terror alert means higher oil prices, which oddly enough means higher profits for oil companies giving them more money to give to politicians whose policies may favor the oil companies such as raising the terror alert level. As Simba once told us: "It's the circle of life." ~Jon Stewart


When you're riding lead, don't spit. ~Author Unknown


There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~Minnie Aumonier