eminem quotes

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine. ~Josh Billings



It has been said that figures rule the world; maybe. I am quite sure that it is figures which show us whether it is being ruled well or badly. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830, translated



There's a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams. ~Stoddard King, Jr.



Dancing is the poetry of the foot. ~John Dryden



Money doesn't talk, it swears. ~Bob Dylan, "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"



A man's soul may be buried and perish under a dungheap or in a furrow of the field, just as well as under a pile of money. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne



God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face. ~Carol Moseley-Braun



A kiss is just a pleasant reminder that two heads are better than one. ~Author Unknown



Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ~Robert Byrne, quoted in 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, 1988



The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



When "Why not do it?" barely outweights "Why do it?" - don't do it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Philosophy is just a hobby. You can't open a philosophy factory. ~Dewey Selmon



Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. ~Thomas Carlyle



As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint. ~Jack Handey



Anonymous Hick Redneck Founding Father: "Think of it: an entire nation founded on saying one thing and doing another."



Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence. ~Leo Stein



I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. ~Mother Teresa



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



When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved. ~Frank Swinnerton