What quotes/lines from Professor's work you use in conversation?

[Lotrelf]

Originally Posted by Eomer of the Rohirrim

Since I started doing philosophy again I've said this line a few times; you can rarely get a simple answer:

"Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

This was one of the quotations I stuck on my till when I worked in a shop many moons ago. I always liked it.

I'd read somewhere, perhaps on another board, a reader saying "Go not to Tolkien for answers, for he will say both no and yes."