short quotes for a tattoo

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ~Louis Hector Berlioz



An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. ~Henry L. Mencken



How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain. ~Bernard Joseph Saurin, Blanche et Guiscard, translated



I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them. ~Troy Kennedy-Martin, The Italian Job



Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. ~Thomas J. Watson



The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection... ~Carl Jung



When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. ~Victor Frankl



The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's. ~Mark Twain, letter to W.D. Howells, 2 April 1899



A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it. ~Author Unknown



History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. ~George Santayana



I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997



There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. ~Joseph Conrad



Thomas Jefferson: "Yes, yes of course, we go to war and protest going to war at the same time...."



We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. ~Syrus



An apology is a good way to have the last word. ~Author Unknown



There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex. ~Billy Joel



Weather forecast for tonight: dark. ~George Carlin



If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr. ~Martin Buxbaum



After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb



When a child is born, so are grandmothers. ~Judith Levy

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