eminem quotes from songs

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. ~Doug Larson Eternity alone can reveal to the human race its debt of gratitude to the peerless and immortal name of Washington. ~James A. Garfield



All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. ~Johann von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774



No one is free when others are oppressed. ~Author Unknown



Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosaic, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill. ~Henry Louis Mencken



Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



I just don't want to die without a few scars. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6



My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. ~Michel de Montaigne



We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. ~Denis Diderot



All mothers are working mothers. ~Author Unknown



Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6



Success has made failures of many men. ~Cindy Adams



Flirtation: attention without intention. ~Max O'Rell, John Bull and His Island



We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. ~George Eliot



Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor. ~Irish Proverb



The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert



It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. ~Andrew J. Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses



Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. ~Gretta Brooker Palmer



The clash between child and adult is never so stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. ~Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle



Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them. ~Abraham Flexner, Universities, 1930



There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about it. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the ignorance of the people is fearful. Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a "flush." It is enough to make one ashamed of the species. ~Mark Twain