The Fellowship of the Ring

„Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.”

„I am not certain, so I will say no more.”

„He began to say to himself: «Perhaps I shall cross the River myself one day.» To which the other half of his mind always replied: «Not yet.»”

„Your Hal's always saying he's seen things; and maybe he sees things that ain't there.”

„«I wish it need not have happened in my time,» said Frodo. «So do I,» said Gandalf, «and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.»”

„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. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”

„But it is not your own Shire, said Gildor. Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.”

„Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”

„Courage is found in unlikely places.”

„Short cuts make long delays.”

„Short cuts make delays, but inns make longer ones.”

„I am not asking you to tell me anything you have a mind to keep to yourself; but I see you are in some kind of trouble.”

„All's well as ends well; though perhaps we should not say that until we reach our own doors.”

„If the danger were not so dark, I should dance for joy.”

„The trees and the grasses and all things growing or living in the land belong each to themselves. Tom Bombadil is the Master. No one has ever caught old Tom walking in the forest, wading in the water, leaping on the hill-tops under light and shadow. He has no fear. Tom Bombadil is master.”

„Some things are ill to hear when the world's in shadow.”

„There is a seed of courage hidden (often deeply, it is true) in the heart of the fattest and most timid hobbit, waiting for some final and desperate danger to make it grow.”

„Be bold, but wary! Keep up your merry hearts, and ride to meet your fortune!”

„All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.”

„Apples for walking, and a pipe for sitting.”

„My cuts, short or long, don't go wrong.”

„Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story.”

„The time of my thought is my own to spend.”

„It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.”

„The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present.”

„We cannot look too far ahead. Let us be glad that the first stage is safely over.”

„It matters little who is the enemy, if we cannot beat off his attack.”

„Eyes that know what to look for may discover the signs.”

„Let the guide go first while you have one.”

„The Dwarves tell no tale; but even as mithril was the foundation of their wealth, so also it was their destruction: they delved too greedily and too deep, and disturbed that from which they fled, Durin's Bane.”

„Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.”

„The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

„I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.”

„There is in her and in this land no evil, unless a man bring it hither himself.”

„It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”

„Sleep in peace! Do not trouble your hearts overmuch with thought of the road tonight. Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet, though you do not see them.”

„We put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.”

„Never travel far without a rope! And one that is long and strong and light.”

„Do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.”

„Your hands shall flow with gold, and yet over you gold shall have no dominion.”

„Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror.”

„Nay, time does not tarry ever, he said; but change and growth is not in all things and places alike. For the Elves the world moves, and it moves both very swift and very slow. […] Yet beneath the Sun all things must wear to an end at last.”

„Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.”