short quotes for tattoos

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau


To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. ~Eva Young


History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age. ~Will and Ariel Durant, Lessons of History


Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. ~Ernestine Ulmer


A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. ~Joey Adams


I expanded with the joy of your love and presence but now that you're gone I just feel bloated. ~Carrie Latet


I think the world is run by C students. ~Al McGuire


My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. ~Richard Avedon


Physiological response to thinking and to pain is the same; and man is not given to hurting himself. ~Martin H. Fischer


We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


The historian and the detective have much in common. ~Mark M. Krug, History and the Social Sciences


I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget. ~William Lyon Phelps


Dear Lord, help me to break even. I need the money. ~Author Unknown


God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them. ~Author Unknown


To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. ~Oscar Wilde


We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance; we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned. ~Ugo Betti, Struggle till Dawn, 1949


A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night. ~J.M. Barrie, Little Minister


Desert rains are usually so definitely demarked that the story of the man who washed his hands in the edge of an Arizona thunder shower without wetting his cuffs seems almost credible. ~Administration in the State of Arizona, U.S. public relief program, 1935-1943


There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt. ~Author Unknown


Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners. ~George du Maurier