Quotes to inspire and reflect

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

Anger is the fluid that love bleeds when you cut it.

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

Aim at Heaven and you will get earth ‘thrown in’: aim at earth and you will get neither.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

I bowl so slow that if after I have delivered the ball I don’t like the look of it, I can run after it and bring it back.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

ADVICE IS A DANGEROUS GIFT, EVEN FROM THE WISE TO THE WISE, AND ALL COURSES MAY RUN ILL.

One does not expect old heads on young shoulders.

THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH ADVERBS.

A WOMAN HAS TO LIVE HER LIFE, OR LIVE TO REPENT NOT HAVING LIVED IT.

There is always a right way and a wrong way, and the wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

No one ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

The difference between outlaws and in-laws is that outlaws don't promise to pay it back.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

If someone says, 'It's not the money, it's the principle,' it's the money.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Good actions get good results in time.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one’s liberty.

Remember, we learn nothing by speaking.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Men may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

 

We are not amused.

 

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

 

I will be good.

 

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

 

Precious … My Precious!

 

Never laugh at live dragons.

 

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them

 

A louse in the locks of literature.

 

What has it got in its pocketses?

 

That which we are, we are;