One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong– or absolutely right.
When you are in any contest you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.