quotes for tattoos about life

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. ~Henry Ward Beecher



The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book? ~Marina Tsvetaeva



Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. ~Robert Benchley



Petroleum and coffee had no value a few centuries ago. ~Author Unknown



A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women. ~Edgar Wallace



The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. ~Bertrand Russell



You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997



We speak little if not egged on by vanity. ~Fran�ois de la Rochefoucauld



Originality is... a by-product of sincerity. ~Marianne Moore



When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do. ~Darryl Dawkins



Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor. ~Author Unknown



If you need a new process and don't install it, you pay for it without getting it. ~Ken Stork



Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. ~Albert Einstein



Perhaps there should be one day a week when you tackle your "Things I Gotta Undo" list. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. ~Don Marquis



Patch grief with proverbs. ~William Shakespeare



Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. ~Winston Churchill



Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind. ~David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism, 1978



Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: Their measurements are being taken and compared. ~Erica Jong