J R R Tolkien Famous Quotes
Not all who wander are lost.
"Little by little, one travels far."
"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."
It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
"The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination."
"Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to."
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence."
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."
All that is gold does not glitter not all those that wander are lost.
"'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'"
"Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends."
"His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all."
J R R Tolkien Quotations
One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.
David Borenstein
"All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable."
Fran Lebowitz
"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done."
Samuel Smiles
To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
William Wordsworth
"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."
Charles Wadsworth
Adopt the pace of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
Josef Stalin
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork
Stanislaw Lec
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
M Hirschfield
"Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice."
Henry David Thoreau