Touching your cap to the Squire may be damn bad for the Squire, but it's damn good for you.

The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

Mind your P's and Q's.

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.

Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.