Free tattoos sayings, quotes and quotations
When the designs are chosen with care, tattoos have a power and magic all their own. They decorate the body but they also enhance the soul.
~written sayings in tattoos by Michelle Delio
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.
~inspirational sayings about Tattoos quotes by V. Vale and Andrea Juno, Modern Primitives
Beauty is skin deep. A tattoo goes all the way to the bone.
~tattoos quotes by Author Unknown
The tattoo attracts and also repels precisely because it is different.
~famous quotes about Tattoos by Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community, 2000
For westerners, the tattoo has always been a metaphor of difference.
~tattoos sayings by Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community, 2000
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.
~written sayings in tattoos by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872
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.
~inspirational sayings about Tattoos quotes by Joshua Lipton, about tattoo artist Paul Booth, Bad Skin, Rolling Stone, 28 March 2002
Scars are tattoos with better stories.
~tattoos quotes by From a Toyota advertisement in Sports Illustrated magazine, 3 June 2002
Your body is a temple, but how long can you live in the same house before you redecorate?
~famous quotes about Tattoos by Author Unknown
I want to get a tattoo of myself on my entire body, only two inches taller.
~tattoos sayings by Steven Wright
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.
~written sayings in tattoos by Thomas Carlyle
Tattoos are like marriage: it's a lifelong commitment, it hurts like hell, and the color fades over time.
~inspirational sayings about Tattoos quotes by Terri Guillemets
[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.
~tattoos quotes by Leo, tattooist, 1993, quoted in Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription, 2000
There is no underground community, no dark den of drunken sailors initiating themselves into manhood via cheap, ill-conceived exercises in bodily perforation; it's just a group of people who delight in using their bodies as billboards.
~famous quotes about Tattoos by Joanne McCubrey, Walking Art: Tattoos, Mountain Democrat Weekend magazine, 9 February 1990
Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.
~tattoos sayings by Jack London
She was what we used to call a suicide blond - dyed by her own hand.
~written sayings in tattoos by Saul Bellow
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
~good sayings about Hate by James Baldwin
My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.
~tattoos quotes by Tupac Shakur
May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer! or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!
~motivational quotes about Blessings sayings by Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1749
OK, so what's the speed of dark
~tattoos sayings by Steven Wright
Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.
~written sayings in tattoos by William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1601
What's done to children, they will do to society.
~good sayings about Parenting by Karl Menninger
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.
~tattoos quotes by George Herbert
Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.
~motivational quotes about Alcohol sayings by Giuseppe Garibaldi
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.
~tattoos sayings by James Douglas, Down Shoe Lane
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
~written sayings in tattoos by William Faulkner
Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a mealIt's a way to live
~good sayings about Thanksgiving Day by Jackie Windspear
The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.
~tattoos quotes by G.R. Elton, The Practice of History
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
~motivational quotes about Marriage sayings by Katherine Hepburn
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
~tattoos sayings by Abraham Lincoln
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
~written sayings in tattoos by Buddha
We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so we dilute the freedom that this cherished emblem represents
~good sayings about Flag Day by Justice William J. Brennan, for the Majority US Supreme Court Decision, 3 July 1989
Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.
~tattoos quotes by William E. Barrett
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
~motivational quotes about Humankind sayings by Joseph Baretti, quoted by James Boswell, 1766, popularly misattributed to Samuel Johnson (*) (Thank
The perfect temperature for tea is two degrees hotter than just right.
~tattoos sayings by Terri Guillemets
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