quotes for tattoos about love

The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of a borrowed thought. ~Albert Pinkham Ryder



A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn. ~Author Unknown



It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ~Voltaire, War



The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't got the joke yet. ~Oliver Herford



Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right. ~Logan Pearsall Smith



A good example has twice the value of good advice. ~Author Unknown



Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization. ~W.E.B. DuBois



Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice. ~Ani Difranco



Labor: One of the processes by which A acquires property of B. ~Ambrose Bierce



The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



...of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy. ~William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954



Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time. ~Bertrand Russell



Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so. ~Charles du Bos



Human-like creatures have existed on this planet for as long as four million years, and for roughly 99 percent of this time, they were hunters and gatherers.... This means that when we're sitting down to lunch, our stone-age bodies "expect" to be fed the same types and ratios of fat that nourished our cave-dwelling ancestors. When we eat French fries cooked in partially hydrogenated vegetable oil instead of wild plants; or wolf down a fat-laden hamburger heaped with mayonnaise instead of meat from a lean, free-ranging game animal, our bodies register the insult. ~Artemis P. Simopoulos and Jo Robinson, The Omega Diet, 1999



We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished? ~Francis Bacon



The only man who can change his mind is a man that's got one. ~Edward Noyes Westcott



Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. ~William Hazlitt



You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. ~Elias Canetti