Rolling or gathering moss. Here are some proverbs and quotes about stones and pebbles.
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A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone. That's why I read so much.(unknown author)
Source: Game of Thrones
Quoted: Tyrion Lannister
A pond full of fish is better than a river full of stones.Matshona Dhliwayo
A rolling stone gathers no moss.If a person keeps moving around from place to place, they gain neither friends nor possessions.
A stone from the hand of a friend is an apple.
A termite can do nothing to a stone but lick it.
Abundance will make cotton pull a stone.
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.Pope Paul VI
How does it feel?Bob Dylan
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.Albert Einstein
If an ox doesn't know the size of his arse he won't eat an apricot stone.
If the stone fall upon the egg, alas for the egg! If the egg fall upon the stone, alas for the egg!Life is not fair.
If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones. People love coming to see them. They are it, they are the most definitive rock n roll band ever.Andy Taylor
It is only the fruit-laden tree that receives the shower of stones from passersby.
It is the fate of the coconut husk to float, for the stone to sink.
Men will only throw stones at trees that are laden with fruit.
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
Royal indeed did Thorin look, clad in a coat of gold-plated rings, with a silver-hafted axe in a belt crusted with scarlet stones.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 13 - Not at Home
About Thorin
Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin's Day will shine upon the keyhole.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 3 - A Short Rest
Moonletters on the map.
Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me.
Swallow a date with its stone.
The constant creeping of ants will wear away the stone.
The King beneath the mountains,J.R.R. Tolkien
The King of carven stone,
The lord of silver fountains
Shall come into his own!
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 10 - A Warm Welcome
Part of a song about the King under the Mountain.
The stone age was marked by man's clever use of crude tools; the information age, to date, has been marked by man's crude use of clever tools.(unknown author)
There are many who throw stones at a red apple.
There in the shadows on a large flat stone sat a tremendous goblin with aJ.R.R. Tolkien
huge head, and armed goblins were standing round him carrying the axes and
the bent swords that they use.
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 4 - Over Hill and Under Hill
They throw stones at the walnut trees, but not at the maple.
Under every stone sleeps a scorpion.
What are young men to rocks and mountains?Jane Austen
Source: Pride and Prejudice
Quoted: Elizabeth
With a shriek that deafened men, felled trees and split stone, Smaug shot spouting into the air, turned over and crashed down from on high in ruin.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 14 - Fire and Water
About Smaug dying.
You don't throw rocks at a green mango.
You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!Keith Richards
