tattoos of sayings and quotes

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. ~E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951



If the light in your life has changed to yellow, I recommend you floor it. It's safer than the alternative. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way. ~Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics



Beauty is the promise of happiness. ~Stendhal



Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship. ~Benjamin Franklin



Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the eight-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing. It's okay though, because I've got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the eight-color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean, there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation, so when I meet someone who's an eight-color type I'm like, "hey girl, magenta!" and she's like, "oh, you mean purple!" and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, "no - I want magenta!" ~John Mayer



Things do not change; we change. ~Henry David Thoreau



Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I. ~Anne Gibbons



Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do. ~Joan Didion



I have laboriously collected this cento out of diverse writers. I have wronged no authors but given every man his own.... Bees do little harm and damage no one in extracting honey; I can say of myself, whom have I injured? The matter is theirs most part, and yet mine.... it becomes something different in its new setting. ~Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy



Skipping is just a dancing walk, or if you prefer, a walking dance. ~Jessi Lane Adams



If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life. ~Mike Ditka



To lead the people, walk behind them. ~Lao-Tzu



The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it. ~E.W. Howe



Even God has to practice his putting. ~Golf Saying



I try to leave out the parts that people skip. ~Elmore Leonard



Classical quotation is a parole of literary men all over the world. ~Samuel Johnson



Quilters know all the angles. ~Author Unknown



Quote A: �I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread which binds them is my own.� ~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne