Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. R. R. Tolkien

I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought.

J. R. R. Tolkien

And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.

J. R. R. Tolkien

A traitor may betray himself and do good he does not intend.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along. To look ahead,' said he. And what brought you back in the nick of time?' Looking behind,' said he.

J. R. R. Tolkien

We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny, which disfigureth good and maketh it seem hateful.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway.

Izaak Walton

Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.

Isaac Barrow

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

Isaac Disraeli

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

Isaac Disraeli

One may quote till one compiles.

Isaac Asimov

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Isaac Asimov

I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct.

Randy Johnson

Honestly, I've never thought much about that. It's nice to know. Maybe we should start the season in September next year.

Paul Harvey

When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.

Paul Haggis

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

Paul Goodman

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

Leonhard Euler

Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena.

Leonardo da Vinci

Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience.

Leonardo da Vinci

Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.

Paul Reubens

I usually go in ahead of time, like at a rehearsal, or a meeting, and tell them, "It may appear that I'm going to go haywire, but I'm not." I always map out what I'm going to do. Still, a lot of it is improvised.

Patrick O'Brian

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

Patrick Rothfuss

You may have heard of me.

Park Chan-wook

Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

Leon Trotsky

You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.

Laurence Housman

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.

Maria Edgeworth

It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.

Mike Brady

When you bluff, someone may call you on it.

Miguel de Unamuno

Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.

Nadine Gordimer

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

R. D. Laing

The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.