tattoo quotes and phrases

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. ~Leonardo Da Vinci (Thanks, Tommy)



Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks. ~Jean Rhys



If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn. ~Andrew Mason



He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise. ~Henry David Thoreau



He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece. ~William Shakespeare, King Lear



Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake. ~Carl Jung



Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. ~Tennessee Williams



It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen. ~Brigitte Bardot



It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ~Mark Twain



The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. ~Attributed to James A. Garfield



I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles. ~Sam Snead, about golf



Grammar stops at love, and at art. ~Terri Guillemets



Angels are direct creations of God, each one a unique Master's piece. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ~Erma Bombeck



The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain. ~Lu Yu



Infinity is a floorless room without walls or ceiling. ~Author Unknown



It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see. ~Eleanor Farjeon



In summer, the song sings itself. ~William Carlos Williams



Maybe part of loving is learning to let go. ~From the television show The Wonder Years