life and death tattoo quotes

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! ~Thomas Hood



People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow. ~George William Russell



Given enough coffee, I could rule the world. ~Author Unknown



Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love. ~Karl Kraus



Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire. ~Napolean Bonaparte, letter to wife Josephine, December 1795



Real golfers, no matter what the provocation, never strike a caddie with the driver. The sand wedge is far more effective. ~Huxtable Pippey



What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. ~Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues, 30 August 1941 What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists. ~Archibald MacLeish, "The Premise of Meaning," American Scholar, 5 June 1972



Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post. ~Charles Beresford, telegram reply to a dinner invitation



"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better. ~George E. Woodberry



If I might comprehend Jesus Christ, I could not believe on Him. He would be no greater than myself. Such is my consciousness of sin and inability that I must have a superhuman Saviour. ~Daniel Webster



In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. ~Simone de Beauvoir



Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~Henry Ward Beecher



I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air. ~Sholem Asch



He is a true fugitive who flies from reason. ~Marcus Aurelius



According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scarring than almost anything else... ~J.K. Rowling, "The Second War Begins," Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003



God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. ~Imamu Amiri Baraka



Happiness is the feeling you're feeling when you want to keep feeling it. ~Author Unknown



The past can't see you, but the future is listening. ~Terri Guillemets



It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ~Benjamin Disraeli



Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. ~Miguel de Unamuno