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.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

—J. R. R. Tolkien

Courage is found in unlikely places.

—J. R. R. Tolkien

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

—J. R. R. Tolkien

If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.

—J. R. R. Tolkien

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

—J. R. R. Tolkien

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

—Mark Twain

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.

—H. L. Mencken

A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.

—Mark Ardis

Success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs in full view.

—Jill Shalvis in The Sweetest Thing

Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing.

—Jandy Nelson in I'll Give You the Sun