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tattoo quotes for life

Earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Hamatreya”

When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past. ~Author Unknown

You know you’re pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate. ~Duke Snider, 1975

Always verify your quotations. ~Martin Joseph Routh, also sometimes quoted as “your references” or “your sources”

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs. ~Moritz Guedemann

Snowmen fall from heaven… unassembled. ~Author Unknown

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? Is it because we are not the person involved? ~Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, 1894

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail. ~Mark van Doren

Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but an affair of character. ~S.W. Straus

If something smells fishy, the neurotic knows everything is going just right. ~Terri Guillemets

When a man goes on a date he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A woman already knows. ~Frederike Ryder

The reason why many people are so fond of using superlatives, is, they are so positive that the poor positive is not half positive enough for them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

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 best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have. ~Author Unknown

The tragedy of war is that it uses man’s best to do man’s worst. ~Henry Fosdick

A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? ~Stanislaw J. Lec

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. ~John Lubbock

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession. ~Martin H. Fischer

Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all. ~Helmut Walcha