love quotes for a tattoo

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares. ~Elbert Hubbard



A nonsmoker is forced to find food, but for a smoker breakfast can be a cigarette and a cup of bad coffee. ~Brock Fiant



What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverb



The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. ~Thomas Jefferson



If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I? ~E.Y. Harburg



The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. ~Nicholas Chamfort



All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. ~Mark Twain



Flowers really do intoxicate me. ~Vita Sackville-West



A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. ~Rachel Carson



Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas. ~Joanne Woodward Which is worse, screwing an intern or screwing the country? ~Author Unknown



A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships. ~Victoria Secunda



I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. ~Abraham Lincoln



The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses. ~Henry Van Dyke



Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. ~John Herschel



I think you enjoy the game more if you don't know the rules. Anyway you're on the same wavelength as the referees. ~Jonathan Davies, 1995



The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves. ~Maria Edgeworth, Thoughts on Bores



And I, I took the road less traveled by. I was using a GPS system. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



When "Why not do it?" barely outweights "Why do it?" - don't do it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Leadership is action, not position. ~Donald H. McGannon



When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body. ~Bill Lee