tattoo quotes for women

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. ~John Cage



You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate. ~Logan Pearsall Smith



Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above and picks up speed, not from anything within itself, but from the vast resources of the universe around us. ~W. Ralph Ward



In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance," Essays, 1841



The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. ~Roberto Assagioli



The era of true peace on earth will not come as long as a tremendous percentage of your taxes goes to educate men in the trades of slaughter. ~Reginald Wright Kauffman



Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. ~Irwin Corey



The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good, spit it out. ~Author Unknown



Life is about using the whole box of crayons. ~RuPaul



His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea. ~Author Unknown



The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky - seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness. ~Joseph Conrad



If four or five guys tell you that you're drunk, even though you know you haven't had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while. ~Joseph Schenck



No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. ~Arnold Bennett



It's about ten times the size of the Bible - and unlike the Bible, contains no good news. ~Don Nickles, about the Internal Revenue Code



If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No." ~Margaret "Stevie" Smith



When the wine goes in, strange things come out. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Piccolomini, 1799



I intend to live forever. So far, so good. ~Steven Wright



Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. ~Henrik Tikkanen



I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ~Glenda Jackson I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes. ~Author Unknown