short quotes to live by tattoos

Man cannot live on chocolate alone, but woman sure can. ~Author Unknown



Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. ~Robert Anthony



What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. ~Henry David Thoreau



We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play. ~Regis Debray, Revolution in the Revolution?



Always verify your quotations. ~Martin Joseph Routh, also sometimes quoted as "your references" or "your sources"



Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb



Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. ~Jean Cocteau



I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind. ~Virginia Cary Hudson, O Ye Jigs & Juleps, 1962 (Thanks, Charlene)



Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. ~Anatole France



The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb



That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface. ~Robert T. Pirsig



You might be a nurse if you firmly believe that "too stupid to live" should be a diagnosis. ~Author Unknown



Many people have sighed for the 'good old days' and regretted the 'passing of the horse,' but today, when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for horses. ~C.W. Anderson



Historian: A broad-gauge gossip. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



And this tattooing had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth; so that Queequeg in his own proper person was a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in one volume; but whose mysteries not even himself could read, though his own live heart beat against them; and these mysteries were therefore destined in the end to moulder away with the living parchment whereon they were inscribed, and so be unsolved to the last. ~Herman Melville, Moby-Dick



When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath. ~August Strindberg



Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe



Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb



I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street. ~Neil Armstrong on jogging, in an interview with Walter Cronkite