eminem quotes and sayings

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. ~Confucius



Rugby football is a game I can't claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties, if you know what I mean. I can follow the broad, general principles, of course. I mean to say, I know that the main scheme is to work the ball down the field somehow and deposit it over the line at the other end and that, in order to squalch this programme, each side is allowed to put in a certain amount of assault and battery and do things to its fellowman which, if done elsewhere, would result in fourteen days without the option, coupled with some strong remarks from the Bench. ~P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves, 1930



I'm addicted to this exercise - I never skip a day! ~Jessi Lane Adams



The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. ~Potter Stewart



The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. ~Henry Fosdick



Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. ~Martin H. Fischer



Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. ~Salvatore Quasimodo



Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies." ~Author Unknown



Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. ~William Makepeace



It must be right: I've done it from my youth.



If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Author Unknown



All that I know I learned after I was thirty. ~Georges Clemenceau



Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. ~Oprah Winfrey



Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did. ~Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe



The obscurest epoch is today. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains



Carelessness doesn't bounce; it shatters. ~Hartman Jule



I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. ~Thomas Browne, An Essay on Death



Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong it calms me. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. ~Elbert Hubbard



God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Neibuhr