Sheathing Quotes

#1. What did I tell you, Mr. Pippin?' said Sam, sheathing his sword. 'Wolves won't get him. That was an eye-opener, and no mistake! Nearly singed the hair off my head!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

Andre Gide

#3. All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

Aristotle.

#4. As I got older, I also found myself agreeing more with Nietzsche, as is no doubt inevitable once your plumbing starts to fail.

Michel Houellebecq

#5. I think I have better taste now than I did then.

Naomi Watts

#6. I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer.

Jonathan Franzen

#7. Their heartbeats fought each other, a mess of rhythm. Liesel tried to eat hers down. The taste of heart was not too cheerful.

Markus Zusak

#8. This is ... self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.

Socrates

#9. I'm half-Italian and half-Polish. So I'm always putting a hit out on myself.

Judy Tenuta

#10. A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.

Jose Bergamin