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"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,189 people liked it

"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."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: family, friends, parties, social
970 people liked it

"Deserves it! I daresay he does. 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 and judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: compassion, justice, mercy
811 people liked it

"... in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Return of the King)

tags: hope, inspirational
186 people liked it

"We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: books, philosophy
176 people liked it

"All we have is to decide what to do with the time that is given to us. "
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

772 people liked it

"Never laugh at live dragons"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: dragons, wisdom
367 people liked it

"It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

101 people liked it

"Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: car, funny, humor, religious
1,150 people liked it

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: christianity
103 people liked it

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: books
87 people liked it

"The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits."
— G.K. Chesterton (Orthodoxy)

30 people liked it

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."
— G.K. Chesterton

76 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,069 people liked it

"If there were no God, there would be no atheists."
— G.K. Chesterton

42 people liked it

"To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: marriage
19 people liked it

"Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution."
— G.K. Chesterton

11 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,302 people liked it

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring barque,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved."
— William Shakespeare (Great Sonnets)

187 people liked it

"He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him."
— William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing)

53 people liked it

"Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much."
— William Shakespeare

24 people liked it

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, religion, sun
2,550 people liked it

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: reading
3,008 people liked it

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: books, old-books, reading
329 people liked it

"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: eating, reading
156 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,509 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,297 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
18,060 people liked it

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,307 people liked it

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy
3,931 people liked it

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
2,911 people liked it

"A person's a person, no matter how small."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
2,271 people liked it

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss

2,060 people liked it

"There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go."
— Dr. Seuss

81 people liked it

"Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high
praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little
for a great praise: only this commendation I can
afford her, that were she other than she is, she
were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I
do not like her. (Benedick, from Much Ado About Nothing)"
— William Shakespeare

10 people liked it

"BEATRICE
Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner.

BENEDICK
Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.

BEATRICE
I took no more pains for those thanks than you take
pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would
not have come.

BENEDICK
You take pleasure then in the message?

BEATRICE
Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's
point ... You have no stomach,
signior: fare you well.

Exit

BENEDICK
Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in
to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that...
(Much Ado About Nothing)"
— William Shakespeare

20 people liked it

"LEONATO
Neighbours, you are tedious.

DOGBERRY
It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in
my heart to bestow it all of your worship."
— William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing)

2 people liked it

"DON PEDRO
Officers, what offence have these men done?

DOGBERRY
Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have
belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves."
— William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing)

3 people liked it

"BENEDICK
Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee?

BEATRICE
Yea, signior, and depart when you bid me.

BENEDICK
O, stay but till then!

BEATRICE
'Then' is spoken; fare you well now...
(Much Ado About Nothing)"
— William Shakespeare

4 people liked it

"Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?'
'As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and evil have not changed since yesteryear, nor are they one thing among Elves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.'"
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Two Towers)

19 people liked it

""He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom." -Gandalf"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

2 people liked it

"Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?'

A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day! [answering Eothain of Rohan]
"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

5 people liked it

"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Two Towers)

tags: lotr, war
259 people liked it

"Let us read and let us dance — two amusements that will never do any harm to the world."
— Voltaire

tags: dance, dancing, reading
545 people liked it

"Draw a crazy picture,
Write a nutty poem,
Sing a mumble-gumble song,
Whistle through your comb.
Do a loony-goony dance
'Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain't been there before."
— Shel Silverstein

197 people liked it

"Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music."
— George Carlin

tags: dance, dancing, music
952 people liked it

"do you really think he likes me lizzi?"
"jane, he danced with you most of the night and stared at you the rest of it."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: attraction, guys, humor, love, men, movie
243 people liked it

"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love"
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

69 people liked it

"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."
— William James, brother of Henry James

tags: logic, psychology, science
55 people liked it

"Mr. Darcy: Do you talk by rule, then, when you're dancing?
Elizabeth Bennet: Yes, sometimes it is best. Then we may enjoy the advantage of saying as little as possible.
Mr. Darcy: Do you consult your own feelings in this case, or seek to gratify mine?
Elizabeth Bennet: Both, I imagine. We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room.
Mr. Darcy: [drily] This is no very striking resemblance of your own character, I'm sure. "
— Pride and Prejudice (1995)

tags: fun-, much, soo
22 people liked it

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