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10 Famous Wisdom Quotes

1. Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. – Joan Crawford

2. Where there is love, there is pain. – Spanish Proverb

3. It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

4. Comedy is an escape not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. – Christopher Fry

5. I like a man who grins when he fights. – Winston Churchill

6. Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you smile. – Deng Ming-Dao

7. Anyone can hate. It costs to love. – John Williamson

8. True is the grief you carry without witnesses. – Marcus Martialis

9. I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. – Groucho Marx

10. It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. – H. L. Mencken

Wise Quotes about Life

It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. – Albert Einstein

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. – John W. Gardner

A hopeless person feels difficulty in every chance but, a hopeful person feels a chance in every difficulty. – Unknown

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. – Pope John XXIII

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Now that it’s all over, what did you really do yesterday that’s worth mentioning? – Coleman Cox

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. – Unknown

A single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books. – Chinese proverb

Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. – Unknown

Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window – or break down a door. – Unknown

Short Tattoo Quotes

Please share with us all your experiences with and about tattoos and we will share with you some great short tattoo quotes.

“Have the courage to live. Anyone can die” –Unknown

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.” – Unknown

“Wars begin in the minds of men” –Unknown

“I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that do not work” –Thomas Edison

“Success is the best revenge” –Unknown

“To be irreplaceable you have to be different” –Unknown

“I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.”  –William Henley

“Music is what feelings sound like” –Unknown

“Dream as if you will live forever, live as if you will die today.” –James Dean

“If you want something you’ve never had, do something you’ve never done.” –Unknown

“You weren’t put on this earth to be ordinary.” –Unknown

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” –Sun Tzu

“Seize the day, place no trust in tomorrow” –Unknown

“Break the rules, stand apart, ignore your head, follow your heart.” –Unknown

“Actions speak louder then words.” –Unknown

“Tell me I can’t, i’ll show you I can.” –Unknown

“Stand for something, or youll fall for anything.” –Unknown

“No man alive, knows the struggles i’ve survived” –Unknown

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” –Unknown

“I may be lying in the gutter, but I’m staring at the stars.” –Unknown

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” –Friedrich Nietzsche
“Let your joy scream across the pain.” –Unknown

“God gave burdens, also shoulders.” –Unknown

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” –Anais Nin

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Leap and the net will appear.”  –Unknown

“Kites rise highest against the wind.” –Unknown

“And in time this too shall pass” –Unknown

“Revel in the chaos” –Unknown

“Fall seven times, stand up eight” –Unknown

“To live is the rarest thing in the world” –Oscar Wilde

“The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all” –Unknown

“Pain is weakness leaving the body” –Unknown

“May I be forever grateful that at times, I did not receive that which I truly deserved.” –Unknown

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” –Unknown

“What doesn’t kill me only makes me stronger.” –Unknown

“Tattoo on the lower back? Might as well be a bullseye.” –Wedding Crashers

“A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.” –William F. DeVault

“The perfect tattoo… the one I believe we are all struggling toward… is the one that turned the jackass into a zebra.” –Cliff Raven

“Beauty is skin deep. A tattoo goes all the way to the bone.” –Vince Hemingson

“I always look for a woman who has a tattoo. I see a woman with a tattoo, and I’m thinking, okay, here’s a gal who’s capable of making a decision she’ll regret in the future.” –Richard Jeni

“For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.” –Cher

“Women, don’t get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you’re twenty or thirty, but when you get to seventy, it stretches into a condor.” –Billy Elmer

“Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.” –Jack London

“The tattoo attracts and also repels precisely because it is different.” –Margo DeMello

“The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have tattoos, and those who are afraid of people with tattoos.” –Unknown

“Once our minds are ‘tattooed’ with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish” –John Maxwell

“Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos – they’re rebellious” –Jennifer Aniston

“Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent; like tattoos and marriage.” –Drew Barrymore

“Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.” –Nicole Appleton

“I want to get a tattoo of myself on my entire body, only 2″ taller” –Stephen Wright

Funny Humorous and Love Quotes

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell. – Joan Crawford

It’s been so long since I made love, I can’t even remember who gets tied up. – Joan Rivers

Trust your husband, adore your husband, and get as much as you can in your own name. – Joan Rivers

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip. – Jonathan Carroll

No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn’t take the first pill that comes along. – Joyce Brothers

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. – Katharine Hepburn

True love is like seeing ghosts; we all talk about it, but few of us have ever seen one. – La Rochefoucauld

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question. – Lily Tomlin

The only people who make love all the time are liars. – Louis Jordan

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he’s a baby. – Natalie Wood

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman. – Oscar Wilde

Love is a grave mental disease. – Plato

Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man that I want my children to spend their weekends with? – Rita Rudner

Forget love, I’d rather fall in chocolate. – Sandra J. Dykes

All marriages are happy. It’s trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems. – Shelley Winters

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy. – Steve Martin

A love without indiscretion is no lover at all. – Thomas Hardy

Marriage is a great institution for those who like institutions. – Tommy Dewar

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. – W. Somerset Maugham

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. – Walt Disney

Love is the answer, but while you’re waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. – Woody Allen

The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty. – Woody Allen

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it’s one of the best. – Woody Allen

Senior Quotes

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. – Judy Garland

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. – Joseph Campbell

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. – Theodore H. White

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. – William James

This above all, to thine own self be true. – William Shakespeare

No one knows what he can do until he tries. – Publilius Syrus

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. – Rabindranath Tagore

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius

There are no facts, only interpretations. – Friedrich Nietzsche

As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way. – Mary Anne Radmacher

Funny Love Quotes

Shopping is better than sex. At least if you’re not satisfied, you can exchange it for something you really like. – Adrienne Gusoff

An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. – Agatha Christie

Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
So each is inevitably disappointed. – Albert Einstein

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity. – Albert Einstein

Men make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. – Anonymous

You know it’s love when you want to keep holding hands even after you’re sweaty. – Anonymous

The four most important words in any marriage…”I’ll do the dishes.” – Anonymous

No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying. – Anonymous

Marriage is like jogging through a puddle of industrial strength rubber glue. You can work hard and make it through the struggles; however, you usually leave your bobby socks and sneakers behind along the way. – Anonymous

When a relationship goes flat, so does a couple of sets of car tires. – Anonymous

Men only have two faults….What they do, and what they say! – Anonymous

You can’t buy love on eBay. – Anonymous

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it? – Bette Midler

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. – Brendan Francis

Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch. – Cathy Carlyle

Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. – Cecilia Egan

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing — and then marry him. – Cher

Men aren’t necessities, they’re luxuries. – Cher

By the time you swear you’re his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is infinite, undying –
Lady, make note of this: One of you is lying. – Dorothy Parker

I’m always looking for meaningful one night stands. – Dudley Moore

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery. – Erma Bombeck

Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. – Fran Lebowitz

It is impossible to love and be wise. – Francis Bacon

Marriage marks the end of many short follies – being one long stupidity. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery. – Fulton J. Sheen

Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it. – George Carlin

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one. – Glenn Beck

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. – Groucho Marx

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. – Helen Rowland

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy. – Henry Kissinger

When we got married I told my wife “If you leave me, I’m going with you.” And she never did. – James Fineous McBride

Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house. – Jean Kerr

Happy New Year Quotes

Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to. ~Bill Vaughn

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan

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

A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam. ~Charles Lamb

New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday. ~Charles Lamb

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty. ~John Selden

Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland

The merry year is born like the bright berry from the naked thorn. ~Hartley Coleridge

New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie

The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! ~Edward Payson Powell

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey

Powerful Quotes about Life

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. – Marie Curie

Life is a song – sing it.
Life is a game – play it.
Life is a challenge – meet it.
Life is a dream – realize it.
Life is a sacrifice – offer it.
Life is love – enjoy it. – Sai Baba

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance. – Anonymous

Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. – Helen Keller

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. – Helen Keller

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. – Helen Keller

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. – John Lennon

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. – Joseph Campbell

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. – Joseph Campbell

Life is a long lesson in humility. – James M. Barrie

Powerful Quotes

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. – Joseph Campbell

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. – Theodore H. White

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

This above all, to thine own self be true. – William Shakespeare

Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle

As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way. – Mary Anne Radmacher

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. – William James

No one knows what he can do until he tries. – Publilius Syrus

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. – Rabindranath Tagore

There are no facts, only interpretations. – Friedrich Nietzsche