Emotions and Feelings

The secret to humor is surprise.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.

“I will take the Ring,” he said, “though I do not know the way.”

 

[ Gollum speaking of the Ring :] Where iss it? Where iss it? . . . Losst it is, my precious, lost, lost! Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!

 

[ Gollum speaking of the Ring :] Where iss it? Where iss it? . . . Losst it is, my precious, lost, lost! Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!

 

I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish tohave them in the neighborhood, intrudinginto my relatively safe world, in which it was, for instance, possible to read stories in peace of mind, free from fear. But the world thatcontained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever cost of peril.

 

I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish tohave them in the neighborhood, intrudinginto my relatively safe world, in which it was, for instance, possible to read stories in peace of mind, free from fear. But the world thatcontained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever cost of peril.

 

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Nota nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down onor to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

 

Theirs not to make reply,

 

Wearing all that weight

 

Was there a man dismay’d?

 

I hold it true, whate’er befall;

 

Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’

 

And this gray spirit yearning in desire

 

[The Republican Party] had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the twentieth century.

 

[ Paying tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt after her death on 7 Nov. 1962 :] I have lost more than a belovedfriend. I have lost an inspiration. She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world.

 

Our nation stands at a fork in the political road. In one direction lies a land of slander and scare; the land of sly innuendo, the poison pen, theanonymous phone call and hustling, pushing, shoving; the land of smash and grab andanything to win. This is Nixonland. But I say toyou that it is not America.

 

[ Remark after he was defeated in the presidentialelection :] A funny thing happened to me on theway to the White House.

 

Our lives no longer feel ground under them.

 

The Oklahoma Ligno and Lithograph Co Weeps at a nude by Michael Angelo.