short tattoo quotes

It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen. ~Brigitte Bardot



Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy. ~Author Unknown



We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives. ~Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979



It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. ~Rachel Carson



I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within. ~Titus Maccius Plautus



People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are. ~Marya Mannes



I'd rather be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother. ~Charles Pierce, 1980



Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. ~Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love



The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head. ~Author Unknown



At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros. ~Paul Freund



Sewing fills my days, not to mention the living room, bedroom, and closets. ~Author Unknown



At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6



Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. ~Countess of Blessington



You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. ~Neil Gaiman



Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~John Dewey



History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass. ~Frederic Harrison, The Meaning of History History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background. ~Thomas Carlyle



The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe. ~Philip W. Anderson, "More Is Different," Science Magazine



Breastfeeding is nature's health plan. ~Author Unknown



When the moon, after covering herself with darkness as in sorrow, at last throws off the garments of her widowhood, she does not at once expose herself impudently to the public gaze; but for a time remains veiled in a transparent cloud, till she gradually acquires courage to endure the looks and admiration of beholders. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827