love and life quotes for tattoos

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top." ~Nancy Barcus



Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses. ~Hebbel



You know you've reached middle age when a doctor, not a policeman, tells you to slow down, all you exercise are your prerogatives and it takes you longer to rest than to get tired. ~Author Unknown



History will see advertising "as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that." ~Malcolm Muggeridge, quoted in Eric Clark, The Want Makers: Inside the World of Advertising, 1988



He stands out among the beacon lights of history as a man of vision dominated by a definite purpose. ~John George Jones



If you judge people you have no time to love them. ~Mother Teresa



Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. ~Seneca the Younger



If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. ~Dorothy Canfield Fisher If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. ~Dorothy Canfield Fisher



Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends. ~Allan Frome



The Internet is a shallow and unreliable electronic repository of dirty pictures, inaccurate rumors, bad spelling and worse grammar, inhabited largely by people with no demonstrable social skills. ~Author Unknown



Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion. ~Spike Milligan, The Last Goon Show of All



I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. ~Will Rogers



Firefighters are hot stuff! ~Author Unknown



We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations. ~Francis John McConnell



It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~Herman Melville



Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe



You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown



Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. ~Martin H. Fischer



Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed. ~Marva Collins



The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived. ~Howard Pyle