short tattoo quotes for girls

If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in the mirror, because I bet that's what really throws you into a panic. ~Jack Handey



While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. ~Eugene V. Debs, Cleveland, 1917



It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ~James Douglas, Down Shoe Lane



As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world. ~Terri Guillemets



A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor. ~August Bier



It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. ~John Kenneth Galbraith



Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay. ~George Bernard Shaw



A book that is shut is but a block. ~Thomas Fuller



A promise is a debt. ~Proverb



There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion. ~Mark van Doren



Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. ~Josh Billings



We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 1860



Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident. ~P.J. O'Rourke



Please be patient. God has not finished with me yet. ~Author Unknown



A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. ~Eudora Welty



Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. ~Adlai Stevenson



I am thankful for the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends. ~Nancie J. Carmody



Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons. ~James Russell Lowell



We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. ~Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld



In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com