quotes and sayings tattoos

Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind. ~Sophie Tunnell



Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665



Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule. ~Lewis B. Smedes



I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm. ~James Thurber



Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. ~Mark Twain



His driving is unbelievable. I don't go that far on my holidays. ~Ian Baker-Finch, on John Daly



Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee. ~Stephanie Piro



The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind. ~Thomas Jefferson, 1813



Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. ~Mark Twain, Notebooks, 1935



The trouble with our age is that it is all signposts and no destination. ~The War Cry



One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. ~A.A. Milne



I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. ~Rudyard Kipling



Pleasure is the bait of sin. ~Plato



I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. ~Groucho Marx



Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ~Roman Gary



Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters to Lucilius



Shake it 'til the moon becomes the sun. ~Vada Nobles, Carl Sturken, Evan Rogers, and Alisha Brooks, "Pon de Replay," performed by Rihanna



There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs. ~Henry Ward Beecher



I don't think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while. ~John Gould



Our moral theorists seem never content with the normal. Why must it always be a contest between fornication, obesity and laziness, and celibacy, fasting and hard labor? ~Martin H. Fischer