Teenagers

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time.  They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.  ~Quentin Crisp


Little children, headache; big children, heartache.  ~Italian Proverb www.onlineexamguide.com


Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.  ~Laurence J. Peter


Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.  ~Logan Pearsall Smith, "Age and Death," Afterthoughts, 1931


If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.  ~Al Bernstein


When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio.  If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.  ~Larry Lujack


The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.  ~Dorothy Parker


Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.  ~Erma Bombeck


Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest.  ~Karen Savage and Patricia Adams, The Good Stepmother


In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals.  If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.  ~Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies


Too many of today's children have straight teeth and crooked morals.  ~Unknown high school principal


Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.  ~Doug Larson


Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.  ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911


Mother Nature is providential.  She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers.  ~William Galvin www.onlineexamguide.com


The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.  ~Raymond Duncan


When the boy is growing he has a wolf in his belly.  ~German Proverb


In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.  ~Robert Brault,

Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.  ~Fran Lebowitz


The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.  ~Edgar Friedenberg, The Vanishing Adolescent


The invention of the teenager was a mistake.  Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.  ~Judith Martin


There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won't cure.  ~Dan Bennett


Adolescence is a period of rapid changes.  Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.  ~Author Unknown


When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.  But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.  ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)


Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.  ~Judith Martin


Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.  ~Bob Phillips


The average income of the modern teenager is about 2 a.m.  ~Author Unknown


Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.  ~Arnold H. Glasow


There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes.  ~Art Buchwald


It's difficult to decide whether growing pains are something teenagers have - or are.  ~Author Unknown


A baby-sitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers.  ~Author Unknown


The average teenager still has all the faults his parents outgrew.  ~Author Unknown


A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars' worth of your food.  ~Henny Youngman www.onlineexamguide.com


There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure.  ~Author Unknown


What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens:  both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory:  an empty gin bottle.  ~Erma Bombeck


You don't have to suffer to be a poet.  Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.  ~John Ciardi, Simmons Review, Fall 1962


I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you've been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene.  ~Robert Brault,

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.  ~Lewis B. Hershey, News summaries, 31 December 1951


You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going.  ~Author Unknown


How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.  ~Jessamyn West


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


Adolescents are not monsters.  They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.  ~Virginia Satir, The New Peoplemaking, 1988


The troubles of adolescence eventually all go away - it's just like a really long, bad cold.  ~Dawn Ruelas


Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.  ~Earl Wilson


Why do children want to grow up?  Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity.  But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do?  Not much:  they can "do" drugs, "have" sex, "make" babies, and "get" money (from their parents, crime, or the State).  For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty.  Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents?  ~Thomas Szasz


I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.  ~Will Rogers


Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.  ~Yiddish Proverb


My adolescence progressed normally:  enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.  ~Faye Moskowitz


Helping your eldest to pick a college is one of the greatest educational experiences of life - for the parents.  Next to trying to pick his bride, it's the best way to learn that your authority, if not entirely gone, is slipping fast.  ~Sally and James Reston

Technology

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.  ~Mark Kennedy


Inventor:  A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.  ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


Modern technology
Owes ecology
An apology.
~Alan M. Eddison www.onlineexamguide.com


It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.  ~Albert Einstein


One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.  No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.  ~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923


For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.  ~Richard P. Feynman


If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.  ~Frank Lloyd Wright


Soon silence will have passed into legend.  Man has turned his back on silence.  Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego.  His anxiety subsides.  His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.  ~Jean Arp


Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.  ~Aldous Huxley


Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.  ~Max Frisch


Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?  ~Al Boliska


Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo:  not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.  ~Lewis Mumford


God never made his work for man to mend.
~John Dryden


It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.  ~T.S. Eliot, about radio


Technology... is a queer thing.  It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.  ~C.P. Snow, New York Times, 15 March 1971


Don't get smart alecksy
With the galaxy
Leave the atom alone.
~E.Y. Harburg, "Leave the Atom Alone," 1957 www.onlineexamguide.com


The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.  ~John Kenneth Galbraith


The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing.  Not so with technology.  ~E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful, 1973


I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.  ~John F. Kennedy


The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.  ~Dennis Gabor, Innovations:  Scientific, Technological and Social, 1970


This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.  ~Jonas Salk


Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.  ~J.K. Rowling


As far as I'm concerned, progress peaked with frozen pizza.  ~From the movie Die Hard 2, spoken by the character John McClane regarding technological advances, screenplay by Steven E. de Souza and Doug Richardson, based on the novel 58 Minutes by Walter Wager


I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind!  ~Author Unknown


The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.  ~Karl Marx


The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.  ~Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988


When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.  ~Alexander Chase, Perspectives, 1966


We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us.  ~John Kenneth Galbraith


Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.  ~William M. Kelly


I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.  The transfer is not paying off.  Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.  ~Brian Eno, Wired, January 1999


Use of advanced messaging technology does not imply an endorsement of western industrial civilization.  ~Anonymous email sig line www.onlineexamguide.com


Once upon a time we were just plain people.  But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems.  Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.  ~Ellen Goodman, "The Human Factor," The Washington Post, January 1987


I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.  ~E.F. Schumacher


Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.  ~Robert M. Pirsig


It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.  ~Pearl S. Buck


The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.  ~B.F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement, 1969


The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.  ~Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939


What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.  ~Arnold Glasow


Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.  ~R. Buckminster Fuller


Imagine that the telegraph is an immense long dog - so long that its head is at Vienna and its tail is at Paris.  Well, tread on its tail, which is at Paris, and it will bark at Vienna.  ~Author unknown, published in Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1866 August 28  (Thanks, Garson O'Toole of quoteinvestigator!)


The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.  ~Havelock Ellis


The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog.  The man will be there to feed the dog.  The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.  ~Warren G. Bennis


It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.  ~John Stuart Mill www.onlineexamguide.com


Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.  ~Arthur C. Clarke


You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers.  ~Walter Lippmann


We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.  ~Carl Sagan


Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.  ~Eric Hoffer


We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.  We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.  This is a prescription for disaster.  We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.  ~Carl Sagan


Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.  ~Alfred North Whitehead


Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.  ~Erich Fromm


Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.  ~Alan C. Kay


Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools.  ~Henry David Thoreau


For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.  ~Alice Kahn


The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.  ~Sydney J. Harris

Teamwork

 I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.  ~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"


The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth."  ~Dan Rather www.onlineexamguide.com


In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work.  It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.  ~Jacques Barzun


Teaching creates all other professions.  ~Author Unknown


If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.  ~Donald D. Quinn


Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.  ~John F. Kennedy


A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ~Thomas Carruthers


Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.  ~Gail Godwin


A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.  ~Horace Mann


Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom.  To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.  ~Tracy Kidder


A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.  ~Henry Brooks Adams


A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.  ~Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, translated from Turkish


If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.  ~Margaret Fuller


The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.  He inspires self-distrust.  He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him.  He will have no disciple.  ~Amos Bronson Alcott


A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.  ~Louis A. Berman


We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family.  Then we expect them to educate our children.  ~John Sculley


Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.  ~Bob Talbert


The mediocre teacher tells.  The good teacher explains.  The superior teacher demonstrates.  The great teacher inspires.  ~William Arthur Ward


The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.  ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton


A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.  ~Author Unknown


What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.  ~Karl Menninger


Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.  ~Author Unknown


A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order than any other, because the pupils do not know who she's looking at.  ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902


Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another.  And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.  ~Eugene P. Bertin


Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.  ~Author Unknown


Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us.  They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them.  ~Author Unknown


Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.  ~Jacques Barzun www.onlineexamguide.com


One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.  The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.  ~Carl Jung


A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.  ~D. Martin


What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased.  ~Author Unknown


The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.  ~Kahlil Gibran


Discover wildlife:  be a teacher!  ~Author Unknown


The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort.  The tough problem is not in identifying winners:  it is in making winners out of ordinary people.  ~K. Patricia Cross


When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.  ~The Talmud


The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.  ~Author Unknown


The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.  ~Robert Brault,
Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher.  That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number.  ~Author Unknown www.onlineexamguide.com


2  Teach is
2  Touch lives
4  Ever
~Author Unknown


Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.  ~John Cotton Dana


There are three good reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and August.  ~Author Unknown


A truly special teacher is very wise, and sees tomorrow in every child's eyes.  ~Author Unknown


A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.  ~Thomas Szaz


To teach is to learn twice.  ~Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842 www.onlineexamguide.com


The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.  ~Author Unknown


Teachers touch the future.  ~Author Unknown


Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first.  The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.  When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.  ~Marva Collins


The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.  ~Elbert Hubbard


Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance.  In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.  ~Peter Drucker


Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools.  The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.  ~Haim G. Ginott


The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.  ~Mark Van Doren


Quotations From Teachers:


The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.  ~Louis Johannot www.onlineexamguide.com


If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I'll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home.  ~Anonymous Teacher

Teachers

 I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.  ~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"


The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth."  ~Dan Rather


In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work.  It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.  ~Jacques Barzun


Teaching creates all other professions.  ~Author Unknown


If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.  ~Donald D. Quinn


Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.  ~John F. Kennedy


A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ~Thomas Carruthers


Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.  ~Gail Godwin


A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.  ~Horace Mann  www.onlineexamguide.com


Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom.  To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.  ~Tracy Kidder


A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.  ~Henry Brooks Adams


A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.  ~Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, translated from Turkish


If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.  ~Margaret Fuller


The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.  He inspires self-distrust.  He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him.  He will have no disciple.  ~Amos Bronson Alcott


A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.  ~Louis A. Berman


We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family.  Then we expect them to educate our children.  ~John Sculley


Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.  ~Bob Talbert


The mediocre teacher tells.  The good teacher explains.  The superior teacher demonstrates.  The great teacher inspires.  ~William Arthur Ward


The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.  ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton www.onlineexamguide.com


A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.  ~Author Unknown


What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.  ~Karl Menninger


Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.  ~Author Unknown


A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order than any other, because the pupils do not know who she's looking at.  ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902


Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another.  And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.  ~Eugene P. Bertin


Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.  ~Author Unknown


Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us.  They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them.  ~Author Unknown


Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.  ~Jacques Barzun www.onlineexamguide.com


One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.  The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.  ~Carl Jung


A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.  ~D. Martin


What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased.  ~Author Unknown


The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.  ~Kahlil Gibran


Discover wildlife:  be a teacher!  ~Author Unknown


The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort.  The tough problem is not in identifying winners:  it is in making winners out of ordinary people.  ~K. Patricia Cross


When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.  ~The Talmud


The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.  ~Author Unknown


The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.  ~Robert Brault,

Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher.  That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number.  ~Author Unknown


2  Teach is
2  Touch lives
4  Ever
~Author Unknown


Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.  ~John Cotton Dana


There are three good reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and August.  ~Author Unknown


A truly special teacher is very wise, and sees tomorrow in every child's eyes.  ~Author Unknown


A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.  ~Thomas Szaz


To teach is to learn twice.  ~Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842


The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.  ~Author Unknown


Teachers touch the future.  ~Author Unknown


Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first.  The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.  When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.  ~Marva Collins


The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.  ~Elbert Hubbard


Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance.  In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.  ~Peter Drucker


Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools.  The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.  ~Haim G. Ginott


The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.  ~Mark Van Doren


Quotations From Teachers: www.onlineexamguide.com


The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.  ~Louis Johannot


If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I'll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home.  ~Anonymous Teacher

Tea

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.  ~Henry Fielding, "Love in Several Masques"


Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world.  ~T'ien Yiheng www.onlineexamguide.com


There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims


Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company.  ~Author Unknown


Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.  ~Catherine Douzel


I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.  ~Sydney Smith


Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary.  ~Chinese Proverb


There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.  ~Bernard-Paul Heroux


Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea.  ~Author Unknown


If you are cold, tea will warm you.  If you are too heated, it will cool you.  If you are depressed, it will cheer you.  If you are excited, it will calm you.  ~Gladstone, 1865


We had a kettle; we let it leak:
Our not repairing made it worse.
We haven't had any tea for a week...
The bottom is out of the Universe.
~Rudyard Kipling


Is there no Latin word for Tea?  Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.  ~Hilaire Belloc


Tea is a cup of life.  ~Author Unknown


There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.  ~Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady


Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.  ~Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste


The mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.  ~George Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft


Tea should be taken in solitude.  ~C.S. Lewis www.onlineexamguide.com


If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.  ~Japanese Proverb


Tea is liquid wisdom.  ~Anonymous


Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you.  Now tell me about hundreds of things.  ~Saki


Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.  ~Alice Walker


Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.  ~Honoré de Balzac


Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.  ~Thich Nat Hahn


Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.  ~Samuel Johnson

O' peppermint tea —
two delights per sip
as steamy hot as passion
cool as a wintry lake dip
~Terri Guillemets


Iced tea may not have as much wisdom as hot tea, but in the summer better a cool and refreshed dullard than a steamy sweat-drenched sage - leave sagacity to the autumn!  ~Linda Solegato


Iced tea is too pure and natural a creation not to have been invented as soon as tea, ice, and hot weather crossed paths.  ~John Egerton


American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day.  It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.  ~Tom Holt


Our trouble is that we drink too much tea.  I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.  ~J.B. Priestley


Tea...is a religion of the art of life.  ~Okakura


All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.  ~George Orwell, "A Nice Cup of Tea"


Tea does our fancy aid,
Repress those vapours which the head invade
And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
~Edmund Waller, "Of Tea"


A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.  ~A.A. Milne


The first cup moistens my lips and throat.  The second cup breaks my loneliness.  The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs.  The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration - all the wrongs of life pass out through my pores.  At the fifth cup I am purified.  The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals.  The seventh cup - ah, but I could take no more!  I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves.  Where is Elysium?  Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither.  ~Lu Tung, "Tea-Drinking"


If you ask Zen people they will say tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert. ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh


Coffee is not my cup of tea.  ~Author Unknown www.onlineexamguide.com


tea leaves
tea loves
loves tea
lives tea
leaves tea?
never.
~Uniek Swain


The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain.  ~Lu Yu


Top off the tea... it lubricates the grey matter.  ~Good Neighbors, quoted from stashtea

Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea?
~Rupert Brooke, "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester," 1912
(Thanks, Helen)


As the centerpiece of a cherished ritual, it's a talisman against the chill of winter, a respite from the ho-hum routine of the day.  ~Sarah Engler, "Tea Up," Real Simple magazine, February 2006


The perfect temperature for tea is two degrees hotter than just right.  ~Terri Guillemets


It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs.  We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so.  It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.  After eggs and bacon it says, "Work!"  After beefsteak and porter, it says, "Sleep!"  After a cup of tea (two spoonfuls for each cup, and don't let it stand for more than three minutes), it says to the brain, "Now rise, and show your strength.  Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature, and into life:  spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!"  ~Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat


Remember the tea kettle - it is always up to its neck in hot water, yet it still sings!  ~Author Unknown


Tea, although an Oriental
Is a gentleman at least;
Cocoa is a cad and coward,
Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
~G.K. Chesterton, "The Song of Right and Wrong"


Tea is instant wisdom - just add water!  ~Astrid Alauda


When the news reporter said "Shopkeepers are opening their doors bringing out blankets and cups of tea" I just smiled. It's like yes. That's Britain for you. Tea solves everything. You're a bit cold? Tea. Your boyfriend has just left you? Tea. You've just been told you've got cancer? Tea. Coordinated terrorist attack on the transport network bringing the city to a grinding halt? Tea dammit! And if it's really serious, they may bring out the coffee. The Americans have their alert raised to red, we break out the coffee. That's for situations more serious than this of course. Like another England penalty shoot-out. ~Jslayeruk, as posted on Metaquotes Livejournal, in response to the July 2005 London subway bombings


The first sip of tea is always the best... you cringe as it burns the back of your throat, knowing you just had the hottest carpe-diem portion. ~Terri Guillemets


Harry found the [tea]... seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest.  ~J.K. Rowling


Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid,... thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.  ~Colley Cibber, Lady's Last Stake www.onlineexamguide.com


Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't try it on.  ~Billy Connolly


You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.  ~C.S. Lewis

Taxes

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.  ~Will Rogers


When there's a single thief, it's robbery.  When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation.  ~Vanya Cohen


Taxation with representation ain't so hot either.  ~Gerald Barzan www.onlineexamguide.com


The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.  ~Ronald Reagan


America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.  ~Laurence J. Peter


I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.  ~Arthur Godfrey


The United States has a system of taxation by confession.  ~Hugo Black


Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?  ~Peg Bracken


The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.  Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.  ~Will Rogers


Unquestionably, there is progress.  The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.  ~H.L. Mencken


The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.  ~William Simon


We must care for each other more, and tax each other less.  ~Bill Archer


The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honored in contributing to those expenses.  ~Anne Robert Jacques Turgot


Be wary of strong drink.  It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.  ~Robert Heinlein


The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.  ~Jean Baptist Colbert, attributed www.onlineexamguide.com


What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.  ~Thomas Paine


Did you ever notice that when you put the words "The" and "IRS" together, it spells "THEIRS?"  ~Author Unknown


Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed. ~Daniel Defoe, The Political History of the Devil, 1726


Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes. ~Benjamin Franklin, letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, 13 November 1789, translated from French


Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year. ~Robert Quillen, "Oh, By the Way!" Gazette-Telegraph (Colorado), 15 April 1921


Another difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time the legislature meets. ~Robert Quillen, "Paragraphs," Lincoln Star (Nebraska), 6 April 1931


Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.  ~Herman Wouk


Capital punishment:  The income tax.  ~Jeff Hayes


If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, how he must hate the taxpayer!  ~John Andrew Holmes


Of course the truth is that the congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the laws they pass.  The laws are written by staff tax nerds who can put pretty much any wording they want in there.  I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the U.S. Tax Code, you'd find at least one sex scene ("'Yes, yes, YES!' moaned Vanessa as Lance, his taut body moist with moisture, again and again depreciated her adjusted gross rate of annualized fiscal debenture").  ~Dave Barry


People who complain about taxes can be divided into two classes:  men and women.  ~Author Unknown


Taxes:  Of life's two certainties, the only one for which you can get an automatic extension.  ~Author Unknown


Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.  ~Ogden Nash


It's income tax time again, Americans:  time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta.  ~Dave Barry


Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant:  animals have instincts, we have taxes.  ~Erving Goffman


The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility.  Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ.  ~Thomas Jefferson


To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.  ~Benjamin Tucker, Instead of a Book


Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.  ~Alfred E. Neuman


A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.  ~Author Unknown


Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.  ~Franklin D. Roosevelt


I am thankful for the taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed.  ~Nancie J. Carmody


Dear IRS, I am writing to you to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list. ~Charles M. Schulz (Snoopy)


The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.  ~John S. Coleman, address, Detroit Chamber of Commerce, 1956


Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


It was as true... as taxes is.  And nothing's truer than them.  ~Charles Dickens


Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related.  ~J.C. Watts, Jr.


The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them.  ~Author Unknown


The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases:  If it moves, tax it.  If it keeps moving, regulate it.  And if it stops moving, subsidize it.  ~Ronald Reagan


I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.  ~Mark Twain


Our tax code is so long it makes War and Peace seem breezy.  ~Steven LaTourette


The wages of sin are death, but after they take the taxes out, it's more like a tired feeling, really.  ~Paula Poundstone


Rightful taxation is the price of social order.  In other words, it is that portion of the citizen's property which he yields up to the government in order to provide for the protection of all the rest.  It is not to be wantonly levied on the citizen, nor levied at all except in return for benefits conferred.  ~Journal of the Senate of the State of Ohio: Being the First Session of the Forty-Sixth General Assembly, held in the city of Columbus, commencing on December 6, 1847, Vol. XLVI, reported by Mr. Archbold


Taxation is the price which we pay for civilization.... ~Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Vermont, October Session, 1851 (Report of the Committee Appointed by the Governor to Take into Consideration the Financial Affairs of the State)


Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.  ~Albert Bushnell Hart, Actual Government, 1903


I like to pay taxes.  With them I buy civilization.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., quoted by Felix Frankfurter, The Atlantic Monthly, October 1938  (Thanks, Garson O'Toole of quoteinvestigator!)


We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax.  I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.  ~John Sherman


You must pay taxes.  But there's no law that says you gotta leave a tip.  ~Morgan Stanley advertisement


This is a question too difficult for a mathematician.  It should be asked of a philosopher.  ~Albert Einstein, about filling out his income tax form, 1944


Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.  ~Will Rogers


U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.  ~Robert Brault,

If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude.  Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation.  It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute.  ~Thomas Paine


Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.  ~F.J. Raymond www.onlineexamguide.com


There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won't cure.  ~Dan Bennett


Pothinus:  "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?"
Caesar:  "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world."
~George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"


There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some.  ~Martin A. Sullivan


The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.  ~Barry Goldwater


Taxes grow without rain.  ~Jewish Proverb


I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.  ~Bob Thaves, "Frank & Ernest"


Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us.  We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.  ~Benjamin Franklin


Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


Question:  " I understand that Congress is considering a so-called 'flat' tax system.  How would this work?"  Answer:  "If Congress were to pass a 'flat' tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't have to fill out any complicated forms, and there would be no loopholes for politically connected groups, and normal people would actually understand the tax laws, and giant talking broccoli stalks would come around and mow your lawn for free, because Congress is NOT going to pass a flat tax, you pathetic fool."  ~Dave Barry


The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card.  A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here.  ~Steve Forbes


A fine is a tax for doing something wrong.  A tax is a fine for doing something right.  Author Unknown


Count the day won when, turning on its axis,
This earth imposes no additional taxes.
~Franklin P. Adams


Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories.  ~H.L. Mencken


Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.  ~Calvin Coolidge


It's about ten times the size of the Bible - and unlike the Bible, contains no good news.  ~Don Nickles, about the Internal Revenue Code


The payment of taxes gives a right to protection.  ~James M. Wayne


If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents.  ~Leon Panetta


What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector?  The taxidermist takes only your skin.  ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1902


The sales tax seems to be more politically acceptable than the income tax.  ~Raymond C. Scheppach


There is an ancient belief that the gods love the obscure and hate the obvious.  Without benefit of divinity, modern men of similar persuasion draft provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.  Section 341 is their triumph.  ~Martin D. Ginsburg


All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says.  ~Walter B. Wriston


The politicians say "we" can't afford a tax cut.  Maybe we can't afford the politicians.  ~Steve Forbes


The more you earn, the less you keep,
And now I lay me down to sleep.
I pray the Lord my soul to take,
If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.
~Ogden Nash


Intaxication:  Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.  ~Author unknown, from a Washington Post word contest


You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.  ~Chris Rock, Bigger and Blacker


People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.  ~Robert Half


Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.  ~Max Baucus


He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation... For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent.... We, therefore... solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States.  ~The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies, 1776


I can give you 1040 good reasons why I hate the government.  ~The Quote Garden

Tattoos

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


The tattoo attracts and also repels precisely because it is different.  ~Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community, 2000


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.  ~V. Vale and Andrea Juno, Modern Primitives www.onlineexamguide.com


For westerners, the tattoo has always been a metaphor of difference.  ~Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community, 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. ~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.  ~Jack London


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


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.  ~Netana Whakaari of Waimana


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


Ink to paper is thoughtful
Ink to flesh, hard-core.
If Shakespeare were a tattooist
We'd appreciate body art more.
~Terri Guillemets


A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods.  ~Iban Proverb, as quoted on vanishingtattoo

Good tattoos aren't cheap and cheap tattoos aren't good.  ~Author Unknown


You think it, I ink it.  ~Saying of tattooists


Tattoo.  What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies. ~Jon Anderson, "Epidermal Dalis," Chicago Tribune, 6 October 1994


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.  ~Joshua Lipton, about tattoo artist Paul Booth, "Bad Skin," Rolling Stone, 28 March 2002


   

[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.  ~Ronald Scutt


Beauty is skin deep.  A tattoo goes all the way to the bone.  ~Vince Hemingson


Beauty is skin deep, unless you have really bad tattoos.  ~Jacob Calle www.onlineexamguide.com


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.  ~Michelle Delio


Your body is a temple, but how long can you live in the same house before you redecorate?  ~Author Unknown


Tattoo the pristine flesh
What is permanent anyway?
This ink only lasts 'til the grave,
Skin and ideas decompose
That which we did compose.
~Corri Alius


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.  ~Thomas Carlyle


And this tattooing had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth; so that Queequeg in his own proper person was a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in one volume; but whose mysteries not even himself could read, though his own live heart beat against them; and these mysteries were therefore destined in the end to moulder away with the living parchment whereon they were inscribed, and so be unsolved to the last.  ~Herman Melville, Moby-Dick


I want to get a tattoo of myself on my entire body, only two inches taller.  ~Steven Wright


We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872


A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.  ~William F. DeVault


Think before you ink!  ~Author Unknown


Your necklace may break, the fau tree may burst, but my tattooing is indestructible.  It is an everlasting gem that you will take into your grave.  ~Verse from a traditional tattoo artist's song, as quoted on pbs.org, "Skin Stories: The Art and Culture of Polynesian Tattoo," 2003


Best believe that needle hurt you
Best to see these true colors
Than follow one of your false virtues
A little secret to make you think:
Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?
~Eddie Van Halen, David Lee Roth, Alex Van Halen, Wolfgang Van Halen, "Tattoo"


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


My body is a journal in a way.  It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.  ~Johnny Depp


The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.  ~James Cook, 1779


Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.  ~Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man


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.  ~Michelle Delio


And what is it, thought I, after all!  It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.  ~Herman Melville, Moby-Dick www.onlineexamguide.com


Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth.  I also like tattoos - they're rebellious.  ~Jennifer Aniston


Louie brought his new girlfriend over, and the nicest thing I can say about her is all her tattoos are spelled correctly.  ~Robert Harling, Steel Magnolias


[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.  ~Leo, tattooist, 1993, quoted in Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription, 2000


Acknowledgment:
Thank you to Vince at The Vanishing Tattoo
for sharing some of the above quotations!