Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
J. R. R. TOLKIENSorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!
More J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
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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.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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