tattoo quotes on strength

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil. ~Byron, Hours of Idleness



I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ~Claude Monet



Started in 1988, World AIDS Day is not just about raising money, but also about increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education. World AIDS Day is important in reminding people that HIV has not gone away, and that there are many things still to be done. ~avert.org, 2006



If triangles had a God, He'd have three sides. ~Old Yiddish Proverb



I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell. ~Alec Yuill Thornton



In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination. ~Mark Twain



My mom used to say it doesn't matter how many kids you have... because one kid'll take up 100% of your time so more kids can't possibly take up more than 100% of your time. ~Karen Brown



In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all. ~Anne Sophie Swetchine



If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from The Beverly Hillbillies. ~Dave Barry



No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent. ~Stephen Jay Gould



Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time. ~Jean Paul Richter



Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap. ~Doug Larson



There never was a merry world since the fairies left off dancing, and the Parson left conjuring. ~John Selden, "Parson," Table Talk, 1689



What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. ~Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947



Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please. ~David Dudley Field



Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ~G.K. Chesterton



The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. ~Red Auerbach



The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower