tattoo quote ideas

Time is the fire in which we burn. ~Delmore Schwartz, "Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day," 1937 (Thank you, George.)


You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it. ~Albert Einstein


I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water too polluted to drink, the commuters are losing out in the struggle to get in and out of the city, the streets are filthy, and the schools so bad that the young perhaps wisely stay away, and the hoodlums roll citizens for some of the dollars they saved in the tax cut. ~John Kenneth Galbraith


It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated


He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. ~Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961


If there's no chocolate in heaven, I'm not going. ~Author Unknown


To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. ~Charles Horton Cooley


The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. ~Author unknown, but probably a secretary!


Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? ~Michael Torke


Give crayons. Adults are disturbingly impoverished of these magical dream sticks. ~Dr SunWolf


Always remember to be happy because you never know who's falling in love with your smile. ~Author Unknown


A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. ~Grace Hansen


It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. ~Anatole France


In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. ~H.L. Mencken


If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. ~Lawrence J. Peter


In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives. ~Samuel Johnson


A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. ~Proverbs 16:9


Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. ~Timothy Fuller


I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes. ~George Sanders


Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. ~Charles Richards