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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
~good tattoo sayings by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872
The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries.
~inspirational sayings about Clothing quotes by Thomas Carlyle
Tattoos are like marriage: it's a lifelong commitment, it hurts like hell, and the color fades over time.
~ tattoo quotes by Terri Guillemets
You may lose your most valuable property through misfortune in various ways. You may lose your house, your wife and other treasures. But of your moko, you cannot be deprived except by death. It will be your ornament and companion until your last day.
~famous quotes about Tattoos by Netana Whakaari of Waimana
A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.
~ tattoo sayings by V. Vale and Andrea Juno, Modern Primitives
[A] genuine tattoo.... tells a story. I like stories and tattoos, no matter how well done, and if they don't tell a story that involves you emotionally, then they're just there for decoration, then they're not a valid tattoo. There has to be some emotional appeal or they're not, to my way of thinking, a real tattoo. It tells people what you are and what you believe in, so there's no mistakes.
~good tattoo sayings by Leo, tattooist, 1993, quoted in Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription, 2000
For westerners, the tattoo has always been a metaphor of difference.
~inspirational sayings about Tattoos quotes by Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community, 2000
I want to get a tattoo of myself on my entire body, only two inches taller.
~ tattoo quotes by Steven Wright
Scars are tattoos with better stories.
~famous quotes about Body by From a Toyota advertisement in Sports Illustrated magazine, 3 June 2002
The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have tattoos, and those who are afraid of people with tattoos.
~ tattoo sayings by Author Unknown
Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.
~good tattoo sayings by Jon Anderson, Epidermal Dalis, Chicago Tribune, 6 October 1994
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.
~inspirational sayings about Tattoos quotes by Billy Elmer
[P]rimitive tribes were certainly convinced that the spirit, having escaped from the body at death, retained a replica of its earthly tenement. They therefore used tattoo marks as a means of identification in the next world and a passport to future happiness.
~ tattoo quotes by Ronald Scutt
Tattooing is about personalizing the body, making it a true home and fit temple for the spirit that dwells inside it.... Tattooing therefore, is a way of keeping the spiritual and material needs of my body in balance.
~famous quotes about Tattoos by Michelle Delio
Inking without a plan gives Booth freedom to explore the desires of those seated in his chair, he says, to feed off their energy, allowing his clients' demons to help guide the needle.
~ tattoo sayings by Joshua Lipton, about tattoo artist Paul Booth, Bad Skin, Rolling Stone, 28 March 2002
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
~good tattoo sayings by George Bernard Shaw
Every uniform corrupts one's character.
~good sayings about Clothing by Max Frisch
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
~ tattoo quotes by William H. Mauldin
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
~motivational quotes about Censorship sayings by Walt Whitman
The truth is more important than the facts.
~ tattoo sayings by Frank Lloyd Wright
Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population growth, to the dirt, pollution and noise of a New York or Tokyo. And that is the tragedy. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.
~good tattoo sayings by René Dubos, quoted in Life, 28 July 1970
Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.
~good sayings about Honesty by Mark Twain
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That signifies nothing. For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
~ tattoo quotes by Albert Einstein
None of our men are experts. We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the expert state of mind a great number of things become impossible.
~motivational quotes about Goals sayings by Henry Ford, Sr.
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.
~ tattoo sayings by William Hazlitt
He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.
~good tattoo sayings by Marcus Aurelius
Life is one big judgment call.
~good sayings about Life by Terri Guillemets
Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.
~ tattoo quotes by Allan Frome
Logic is logic. That's all I say.
~motivational quotes about Logic sayings by Oliver Wendell Holmes, The One-Hoss Shay
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
~ tattoo sayings by George Santayana
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculousThen I was sixty-five I still had pimples
~good tattoo sayings by George Burns
The most beautiful view is the one I share with you
~good sayings about I Love You by Author Unknown
A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
~ tattoo quotes by Robert Kiyosaki
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
~motivational quotes about Food sayings by Henry IV of France
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
~ tattoo sayings by Samuel Butler, Erewhon
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