mi amore tattoo

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~Oscar Wilde


When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. ~Mark Twain


All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1670


Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans. ~Fred Allen


Fire is the best of servants; but what a master! ~Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, Book II, chapter 9


Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. ~Lillian Smith


A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time. ~Author Unknown


All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile. ~Chris Hart


A sister shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams. ~Author Unknown


Painting is silent poetry. ~Plutarch, Moralia: How to Study Poetry


The past is a good place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. ~Author Unknown


Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. ~Cicero Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. ~Aldous Huxley, Themes and Variations, 1950


Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ~Samuel Ullman


In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? ~G.K. Chesterton


Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word. Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy in my veins. ~R.M. Grenon


If men were angels, no government would be necessary. ~James Madison


A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world. ~Harvey Cushing


A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums. ~Martin H. Fischer


All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason. ~John Henry Cardinal Newman