inspirational tattoo quotes and sayings

Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



There are people who have money and people who are rich. ~Coco Chanel



Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance. ~Ezra Pound



Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art. ~Martin H. Fischer



One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds. ~Dan Bennett



Forever is composed of nows. ~Emily Dickinson



Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. ~Ernest Benn



Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them. ~Martin Amis



If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standards of nonconformity. ~Bill Vaughan



I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever. ~W.E.H. Lecky



The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. ~B.F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement, 1969



Skipping is just a dancing walk, or if you prefer, a walking dance. ~Jessi Lane Adams



Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil. ~Byron, Hours of Idleness



All religions must be tolerated... for... every man must get to heaven his own way. ~Frederick the Great



Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. ~G.B. Shaw, "Maxims for Revolutionists," 1898



For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. ~Mark 11:23



Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient. ~Bo Jackson



Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. ~Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, translated by Philemon Holland



One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly. ~Edward C. Steadman



Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844