Ronald Reagan

The federal government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a voracious appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

—Ronald Reagan

J.R.R. Tolkien

Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard's face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth.

—J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Book V, ch 1.