tattoo quotes about time

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ~Sydney J. Harris



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



To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. ~Confucius



You must pay taxes. But there's no law that says you gotta leave a tip. ~Morgan Stanley advertisement



Take the time to come home to yourself every day. ~Robin Casarjean



The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



There are too many people, and too few human beings. ~Robert Zend



Man is a creature composed of countless millions of cells: a microbe is composed of only one, yet throughout the ages the two have been in ceaseless conflict. ~A.B. Christie



Paradoxical as it sounds, many intellectuals prefer life in the mud to life in clear water. ~Martin H. Fischer



Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. ~George Washington Carver



I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. ~Gore Vidal



It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible. ~J.J. Bentley



Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. ~Oscar Wilde



We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. ~Abigail Adams



The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~Attributed to both Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall



History is the essence of innumerable biographies. ~Thomas Carlyle, On History



Art is Man's nature. Nature is god's art. ~James Bailey



The key is not the "will to win" - everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important. ~Bobby Knight



Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus. ~Laplace, Theorie analytique des probabilites, 1820