poems for tattoos

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. ~Edgar W. Howe



It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. ~Seneca



The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied... but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing. ~John Berger



This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anyone could have. ~Author Unknown



Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man. ~Martin H. Fischer



Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth. ~Victoria Secunda



I am woman! I am invincible! I am pooped! ~Author Unknown



My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~H. Fred Dale (Thanks, Anne)



What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ~Eleanor Powell



We are asleep with compasses in our hands. ~W.S. Merwin



If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another. ~Yiddish Proverb



Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it. ~Soren Kierkegaard, Time, 16 December 1946



If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. ~Robert Quillen



Those that say you can't take it with you never saw a car packed for a vacation trip. ~Author Unknown



To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. ~Stanislaus I of Poland



I am running in this race because of what Dr. King called "the fierce urgency of now." Because I believe that there's such a thing as being too late. And that hour is almost upon us. ~Barack Obama, Iowa Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, 2007 Nov 10



There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that. ~Steve Martin There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually get to see? Thirty-seven guys in polyester slacks squinting at the sun. Doesn't that set your blood racing? ~Peter Andrews



What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp. ~Author Unknown



Visitors should behave in such a way that the host and hostess feel at home. ~J.S. Farynski



I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes