{Quotes}[April 1968]

[Redbook0:25-30][196804ff]{Quotes}[April 1968][Age 16]

(Started in April, 1968)

This book now becomes a book of other people’s quotations, since my own thoughts have gone into the huge “diary” I am now keeping.

 “Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem”

(What pleases the prince has the force of law.)

(Roman legal tag) {Ulpian}

“Remember that the French are discouraged if they do not immediately succeed in anything they undertake.”

(Charles V’s Political Testament

January 18, 1548

(Advice to Philip))

“They reckon ill who leave me out;
When me they fly, I am the wings.”

(Ian Fleming?)

{-- quoted this in “Diamonds are Forever”,

from Emerson’s poem “Brahma”}

Uncle George and Auntie Mabel

Fainted at the breakfast table;

Children let this be a warning:

Never do it in the morning.

“For what man that is entred in a pley

He nedes moot unto the pley assente.”

(Chaucer, “Clerk’s Prologue”)

“Here is set out a long story of the English-speaking peoples.  They are now to become allies in terrible but victorious wars.  And that is not the end.  Another phase looms before us, in which alliance will once more be tested and in which its formidable virtues may be to preserve Peace and Freedom.  The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.  Nor should we now seek to define precisely the exact terms of ultimate union.”

Winston Spencer Churchill:

Final passage from

“A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.”

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,

    Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
    One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
    One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
    One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien:

Prelude to “The Lord of the Rings”.

“Thou has lost thy princely privilege

With vile participation”

Shakespeare

Henry IV to Henry (V),

Prince of Wales

{Henry IV Part 1, Act 3, Scene 2}

Skirts are getting shorter,

    said the fairy to the gnome

Two more cheeks to powder

    and a lot more hair to comb.

(Anon.)

“Here I stand; I can do no other; God help me; amen.”

(attributed to Luther, Diet of Worms,

January 18^th 1521, probably mythical words).

(as quoted by Elton , in “Reformation Europe”).

They do say that in New York there are only two kinds of pedestrian – the quick, and the dead.

"What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!"

"Pity?  It was Pity that stayed his hand.  Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need.  And he has been well rewarded, Frodo.  Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so.  With Pity."

"I am sorry," said Frodo. "But I am frightened; and I do not feel any pity for Gollum."

"You have not seen him," Gandalf broke in.

"No, and I don’t want to," said Frodo.  "I can’t understand you.  Do you mean to say that you, and the Elves, have let him live on after all those horrible deeds?  Now at any rate he is as bad as an Orc, and just an enemy.  He deserves death."

"Deserves it!  I daresay he does.  Many that live deserve death.  And some that die deserve life.  Can you give it to them?  Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.  For even the very wise cannot see all ends.  I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it.... "

Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings.

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