Gnomes Quotes (103 quotes)

“Xenophilius Lovegood," he said, extending a hand to Harry. "My daughter and I live over the hill, so kind of the Weasleys to invite us. I think you know my Luna?" he added to Ron.
"Yes" said Ron. "Isn't she with you?"
"She lingered in that charming little garden to say hello to the gnomes, such a glorious infestation! How few wizards realize just how much we can learn from the wise little gnomes — or, to give then their correct names, the Gernumbli gardensi."
"Ours do know a lot of excellent swear words," said Ron, "but I think Fred and George taught them those.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Favorite Quotations.
I speak my mind because it hurts to bite my tongue.
The worth of a book is measured by what you carry away from it.
It's not over till it's over.
Imagination is everything.
All life is an experiment.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly.”
― Pat Frayne, Tales of Topaz the Conjure Cat: Part I Topaz and the Evil Wizard & Part II Topaz and the Plum-Gista Stone

tags: action, adventure, animals, bats, battles, castle, cave-scarey, conjure-cat, curses, dark-powers, evil, fairy-elf, flesh-eaters, forest, fox, friendship, gnome-fortress, gnomes, goose-bumps, healers, lands, loyalty, magic, magic-stone, missing-children, mission, mystery, mystical, ogre, owl, paranormal-powers, quest, raccoon, snakes, spiders, spirit, sprite, suspense, troll, witch, wizard, wolf

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“You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, anthropocentric, anthropocentrism, aphorism, aphorisms, arrogance, arrogant, axiom, axioms, belief, beliefs, believe, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, gnome, gnomes, humble, humility, humor, humour, importance, important, insightful, life, life-goes-on, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, modest, modesty, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, really, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, sincere, sincerely, thought-provoking, thoughtful, truly

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“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, afraid, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, avoid, axiom, axioms, deep, depress, depressed, depressing, depression, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, fear, fearful, funny, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, impression, in-public, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, philosopher, philosophy, private, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, public, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, seem, south-africa, south-african, stoic, stoicism, stoics, suicidal, suicide, think, thinker, thinkers, thinking, thought-provoking, thoughtful

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“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

tags: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, bachelor, bachelors, birth, born, boyfriend, boyfriends, breakup, breakups, childfree, childless, deep, dictum, dictums, divorce, divorces, epigram, epigrams, ex, exes, father, fatherhood, fathers, funny, girlfriend, girlfriends, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, husband, husbands, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, marriage, married, maxim, maxims, mom, moms, mother, mothers, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, relationship, relationships, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, selfish, selfishness, single, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful, trouble, troubled, wife, wives, world

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“Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, aphorism, aphorisms, appreciate, appreciation, axiom, axioms, bighearted, callous, caring, charitable, cold, cold-hearted, compassionate, considerate, cruel, death, deep, dictum, dictums, empathetic, epigram, epigrams, gnome, gnomes, hard-hearted, heartless, humane, humor, humour, inconsiderate, inhuman, insensitive, insightful, kind, lenient, life, life-partner, life-partners, love, lover, lovers, loving, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, mean-spirited, merciful, merciless, need, needs, pitiless, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, remind, reminder, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, sensitive, solicitous, stony-hearted, sympathetic, take-for-granted, thought-provoking, thoughtful, tolerant, uncaring, unconcerned, understanding, unfeeling, unkind, unsympathetic, want, wants, warm, waste

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“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

tags: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, attitude, axiom, axioms, bitch, bitches, childfree, childless, deep, dictum, dictums, disability, disabled, epigram, epigrams, funny, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, philosopher, please, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, selfish-selfishness, society, south-africa, south-african, subhuman, thought-provoking, thoughtful, upset, upsetting

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“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, africa, african, antinatalism, antinatalist, antinatalists, anxiety, anxious, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, casket, caskets, coffin, coffins, dead, death, deep, depress, depressing, dictum, dictums, dying, enjoy, enjoyment, epigram, epigrams, eulogies, eulogy, funeral, funerals, funny, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, hurt, hurting, immortal, immortality, insightful, joy, lament, laments, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, mortal, mortality, pain, philosopher, pleasure, pleasures, premature, premature-death, premature-deaths, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, rob, robbed, robber, robbers, robbing, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, south-africa, south-african, stress, suffer, suffering, thought-provoking, thoughtful, worried, worry, worrying

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“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, adolescent, adolescents, adult, adulthood, adults, africa, african, ancient, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, child, children, dead, death, deep, dependence, dependent, develop, developing, development, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, existence, four-stages-of-life, funny, gnome, gnomes, grandparent, grandparents, grow, growing, growth, humor, humorous, humour, immortal, immortality, independence, independent, infant, infants, insightful, life, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, mortal, mortality, newborn, newborns, old, old-age, old-age-home, old-age-homes, phase, phases, philosopher, prepubescent, process, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, retire, retired, retiree, retirees, retirement, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, senile, senility, south-africa, south-african, stage, stages, stages-of-life, teenage, teenager, teenagers, thought-provoking, thoughtful, young, youth, youths

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“We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, be-in-touch, best-friend, best-friends, cellphone, cellphones, check-on, contact, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, facebook, families, family, friend, friends, gnome, gnomes, good-morning, greet, greetings, humor, humour, in-touch, insightful, instagram, internet, keep-in-touch, letter, letters, long-time-to-see, love, loved, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, mobile-phone, mobile-phones, phone, phone-call, phone-calls, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, sms, smses, social-media, stranger, text, texts, thought-provoking, thoughtful, twitter

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“Some people will hate you for not loving them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, avenge, axiom, axioms, deep, dictum, dictums, enemies, enemy, epigram, epigrams, fair, fairness, foe, foes, friend, friends, funny, gnome, gnomes, hate, hated, hater, haters, hating, humor, humorous, humour, injustice, insightful, justice, likelihood, likely, love, loving, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, requited-hate, requited-love, revenge, rival, rivals, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful, tit-for-tat, unfair, unfairness, unrequited, unrequited-hate, unrequited-hatred, unrequited-love

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“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

tags: act, adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, believe, conform, conformity, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, expect, expectation, expectations, feel, feeling, feelings, funny, gnome, gnomes, human, human-being, human-beings, humanity, humans, humor, humorous, humour, insane, insanity, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, mankind, maxim, maxims, people, person, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, sane, sanity, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, south-africa, south-african, think, thought-provoking, thoughtful

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“Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, consistency, consistent, crazy, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, fake, gnome, gnomes, happiness, happy, humor, humour, immortality, insane, insanity, insightful, mad, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, mortality, pretend, pretense, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, sad, sane, sanity, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, sincere, sincerely, thought-provoking, thoughtful, unhappiness, unhappy

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“The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, advice, advices, advisor, advisors, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, bank, bank-statement, bank-statements, banks, bombast, bombastic, clothes, clothes-make-the-man, clothes-maketh-the-man, clothing, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, financial-advice, financial-advices, financial-advisor, financial-advisors, financial-freedom, funny, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, impress, impressed, impression, income, insightful, invest, investment, investments, jargon, job, job-title, job-titles, jobs, language, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, money, passive, passive-income, philosopher, policies, policy, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, rich, riches, salaries, salary, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, share, shareholder, shareholders, shareholding, shares, south-africa, south-african, suit, suits, tailor, tailor-made, tailored-suit, tailored-suits, tailors, thought-provoking, thoughtful, tuxedo, wage, wages, wealth, wealthy

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“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

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“Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

tags: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, caregiver, caregivers, child, childfree, childhood, childless, children, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, father, fatherhood, fathers, foster-parent, foster-parents, funny, gnome, gnomes, hope, humor, humorous, humour, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, mother, motherhood, mothers, old-age-home, old-age-homes, parent, parenthood, parents, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, second-childhood, selfish-selfishness, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful

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“Trust not in Sprites nor the motivations of a Gnome.”
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places

tags: fantasy, gnomes, motivation, motives, sprites, trust, young-adult

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“Within the magic of the asking,
lives the magic to receive,
wonderfully exciting, endless possibilities!”
― Amma Sharon, A Gnome's Winter Solstice Tale: Would You Unquestionably Rather Be Yourself?

tags: childrens-fiction, childrens-literature, childrensbooks, gnomes, inspirational, picture-books-for-kids

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“But they were nonetheless consumed with a fire of loyalty, that paid no heed to years or age.”
― Ben Ditmars, Gnomes of Coyul: The Crystal Staff

tags: age, battles, fantasy, fire, gnomes, war, youth

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“Ale is the most civilized thing to a Dwarf, but to a Human it’s a reversal; a step back into a more primitive state.”

(HammerThorn)”
― C.A. Tedeschi, The Knights of the Brotherhood

tags: alcohol, all-father, dwarves, fantasy-fiction, gnomes, ogre, paladin, sword-and-sorcery, terra-firma, troll

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“Everything about the brain of a gnome is amped up. They weren't just intelligent. They were more susceptible to the effects of an emotional stimulus.”
― C.A. Tedeschi, Lion Knight saga 2, The Tree of Despair

tags: dungeons-and-dragons, gnomes, hero, magic, quest, tiny-folk

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“Golden brown syrup light pranced upon his melancholy face. The flickering was somewhat surreal.”
― Ben Ditmars, Gnomes of Coyul: The Crystal Staff

tags: fantasy, gnomes, melancholy, nature, sadness, syrup, trees

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“From then on, the King would turkey slap one woman for the rest of his years. It was a bigger sacrifice than all he had made to the gods.”
― Ben Ditmars, Turkey Slap 2012

tags: erotica, gnomes, humor, romance, turkey-slap

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“So he dreamt of the land of sunbeams; and that
was a dream indeed!”
― Ben Ditmars, The Old Crone and the Princess

tags: agnes-grozier-herbertson, children-s-books, fantasy, gnomes, sunbeam-quotes, sunbeams

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“Long and white was his hair, like the mountains of the north, with a towering beard that had aged with time. Shrouded was his cloak, and of yew was his staff, and atop his head, a braided crown made of silver decorated it. Wrapped around his furrow neck, hung a horn, and perched high atop his olden shoulders, rested two ravens resembling the color of a wave’s crest. From the book Tundra: A Wanderer's Tale into Darkness”
― Marilyn Velez

tags: centaurs, dark-elves, epic-battles, epic-fantasy, faes, gnomes, magic, sirens, sword-and-sorcery, sword-fighting

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“It looks like some... giant evil garden gnome. When garden gnomes go bad.”
“Gnomes have beards,” I said.
“Maybe the ones without beards are evil. That's how you can tell.”
― J.L. Bryan, The Necromancer's Library

tags: beards, evil, facial-hair, funny, gardening, gardens, gnomes, humor

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