tattoo ideas quotes life

The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. ~Albert Einstein



Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. ~E.M. Forster



Dear beautiful Spring weather, I miss you. Was it something I said? ~"Skipper" Kim Corbin



History is fallible as every man is fallible. But it is likewise trustworthy, as a man is trustworthy who has looked into himself and come to know how blended are dust and fire in the innermost recesses of the human heart. ~Arthur Bestor



Kindness is the greatest wisdom. ~Author Unknown



Art is spirituality in drag. ~Jennifer Yane



Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts. ~Janice Maeditere



'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. ~Ovid



When I was a Boy Scout, we played a game when new Scouts joined the troop. We lined up chairs in a pattern, creating an obstacle course through which the new Scouts, blindfolded, were supposed to maneuver. The Scoutmaster gave them a few moments to study the pattern before our adventure began. But as soon as the victims were blindfolded, the rest of us quietly removed the chairs. I think life is like this game. Perhaps we spend our lives avoiding obstacles we have created for ourselves and in reality exist only in our minds. We're afraid to apply for that job, take violin lessons, learn a foreign language, call an old friend, write our Congressman - whatever it is that we would really like to do but don't because of personal obstacles. Don't avoid any chairs until you run smack into one. And if you do, at least you'll have a place to sit down. ~Pierce Vincent Eckhart



A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. ~Edgar J. Mohn



What is more mortifying than to feel you've missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree? ~Logan Pearsall Smith



Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law. ~William James, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, 1910



Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. ~Abraham Lincoln



Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours. ~Benjamin Disraeli



Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept. ~Saint Francis de Sales



Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war. ~Homer, Iliad



We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it. ~John F. Kennedy, 1961



Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in the intervals. ~Proust, The Past Recaptured, 1927



This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. ~Elmer Davis