“Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.”– Oliver Goldsmith Related Quotes “He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope,as long as despair could be postponed.”— J.R.R. Tolkien “There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.”– Hodding Carter “There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing – but we all do and call it Hope.”– E. W. Howe