tattoo ideas quotes life

He who can be a good son will be a good father. ~Author Unknown



"Give us this day our daily bread" is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language. ~P.J. Wingate



It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. ~George Santayana



No man does right by a woman at a party. ~Harry Golden



If you're enough lucky to be Irish, you're lucky enough! ~Irish Saying



Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. ~Author Unknown



They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown



Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore



This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders. ~Sarah Orne Jewett



All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself. ~Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"



Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minute its hot and the next minute its cold, so a person never knows what to hock. ~Anita Loos



Fish, to taste right, must swim three times - in water, in butter, and in wine. ~Polish Proverb



As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. ~Socrates



If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. ~C.G. Jung, Integration of the Personality, 1939



Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world. ~Florenz Ziegfeld



Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure. ~Sei Shonagon



Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb



You know you are getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate. ~Author Unknown



other animals? ~Attributed to George Bernard Shaw