Tattoo parties: just like a regular party – but with a permanent hangover. – Rob Ruckus, Bad Ink, “Tat’s Ink-redible!” original airdate 2014 February 2

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

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, and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol.II, Ch