"It is perilous to study too deeply..." - Quote by J R R Tolkien

“Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun, Lúthien Tinúviel more fair than Mortal tongue can tell. Though all to ruin fell the world and were dissolved and backward hurled; unmade into the old abyss, yet were its making good, for this - the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea - that Lúthien for a time should be.”

“If we all got angry together something might be done.”

“It was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort”

“A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.”

“Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.”

“Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action?”

“We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.”

“The one advantage of playing with fire...isthat no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.”

“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”