quotes on life tattoos

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity. ~George Steiner



Oftentimes the supposed increasers of knowledge have only given a new name, and a worse, to what every body knew before. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Astrologers are agreed that the squiggles called a horoscope contain some sort of message to be decoded... ~Dennis Elwell



Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much. ~Margaret Willour



Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. ~Lady Bird Johnson



By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. ~Rabindrath Tagore



I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit. ~Mae West



Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. ~Author Unknown



The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more. ~Liza Ciano, co-owner and co-director of Yoga Vermont, yogavermont.com



I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game: it's called an eraser. ~Arnold Palmer



Remember the street car cannot turn out. ~Charles M. Hayes



I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. ~Jean Kerr, "Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall," The Snake Has All the Lines, 1958



The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer. ~Joan Collins



I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. ~Thomas Moore



If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears. ~W.H. Auden The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future. ~Shiloh Morrison



Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it. ~Henry S. Haskins



Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ~Mark Twain



Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do. ~Margaret Laurence



We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations. ~Francis John McConnell