life and love quotes for tattoos

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. ~Ernest Hemingway, interview in Paris Review, Spring 1958



There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values. ~David G. Myers, Social Psychology



It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. ~Albert Einstein



Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder. ~Greek Proverb



Boys are beyond the range of anyone's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years. ~James Thurber Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard



To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart. ~W. Macneile Dixon



Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. ~Jesse Jackson



Drag is when a man wears everything a lesbian won't. ~Author Unknown



You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine.... The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear out simultaneously. I am that machine. ~Frederick Alexander Lindemann



A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth. ~George D. Prentice



Some colors exist in dreams that are not present in the waking spectrum. ~Terri Guillemets



What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. ~Mark Twain



It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it. ~Remy de Gourmont



Sometimes I do a little mental skipping, just to shake things up in my mind. ~Jessi Lane Adams



Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. ~Dr. Alexis Carrel



Obesity is really widespread. ~Joseph O. Kern II



The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. ~Henry Louis Mencken



It was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author - and not to learn it better. ~Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886



If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, e.g., with no external memory aids, you are not ready to code it. ~Richard Pattis



The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers. ~John Taylor