tattoo quotes for loved ones

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. ~George Levinger


Extract: a passage from a literary work.


The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona. ~Will Rogers


Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors. ~Gerhard Kocher


I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. ~Douglas Adams


When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints. ~Samuel Johnson


If I can hit a curveball, why can't I hit a ball that is standing still on a course? ~Larry Nelson


A statesman of the school of sound common sense, and a philanthropist of the most practical type, a patriot without a superior - his monument is a country preserved. ~C.S. Harrington


Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing. ~Jean Paul Sartre, Nausea


The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end. ~Owen Young We are only young once. That is all society can stand. ~Bob Bowen


Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. ~Aristotle


You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., to the eight fellow clergymen who opposed the civil rights action, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait, 1963


The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ~G.K. Chesterton


One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way. ~Vincent Van Gogh


Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. ~Bill Gates


Contextomy: quoting out of context. This is a type of false attribution in which a passage is removed from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its intended meaning. The issue is not the removal of a quote from its original context (as all quotes are) per se but the quoter's decision to exclude from the excerpt certain nearby phrases or sentences that serve to clarify the intention. Editor's note: I have not intentionally quoted out of context on this site; however, due to the use of visitor submissions, some of the quotes might be used out of context. If you come across this type of error, please let me know and I'll correct the problem as soon as I can. Thank you!


The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely. ~Lyman Bryson


Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown


All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins? ~George Bernard Shaw