Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)

• It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.

• I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

• Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soulmate is the one you are actually married to.

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

• I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.

• Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.