tattoos of quotes about life
One's home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening - the best piece of pie you have ever eaten in your life - and can never find again. After you leave home, you may find yourself feeling homesick, even if you have a new home that has nicer wallpaper and a more efficient dishwasher than the home in which you grew up. ~Lemony Snicket
The politicians say "we" can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians. ~Steve Forbes
In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number. ~Steven Wright
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him. ~Henry David Thoreau
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. ~Gore Vidal
When most people see an adult skipping they assume it must be on the way either to or from the asylum. ~Terri Guillemets
Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough. ~Dinah Shore
Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight. ~Samuel Lichtenberg
No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday. ~Mae West
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry Boye
Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
It gives me a headache to think about that stuff. I'm just a kid. I don't need that kind of trouble. ~Kenny, age 7, when asked if it's better to be single or married
Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances. ~Wayne W. Dyer
Silence is the secret to sanity. ~Astrid Alauda
I have an almost religious zeal - not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up. ~Dan Millman
I owe my solitude to other people. ~Alan Watts
He who burns his bridges better be a damn good swimmer. ~Author Unknown
The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers and also the chains. ~Karl Marx, The Wisdom of Karl Marx
I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting. ~George Orwell, Such, Such Were the Joys
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. ~Peter Drucker