One of my favorites are:

Your ridiculous little
opinion has been noted.
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“When an old man or woman dies, a library burns down.”
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Everyone has a photographic memory
…some just don’t have any film.
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Try not to let your mind wander…It is too small and fragile to be out by itself.
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*Why isn’t phonic spelled the way it sounds?
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“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas-a place where history comes to life.” — Norman Cousins
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“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.” — Gilbert Highet

My most favorite is the first one. I am bad at putting who they are by.

O.K. So, a few I don’t know who said them, but I love:

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values, and witnesses.

You know, I don’t really want people to spoil my delusions with reality.

Problem? What problem? It’s just an issue that hasn’t been resolved yet!!

“Donkey, you have the right to remain silent. What you lack is the capacity.” –Shrek

Bud Bundy (a la ‘Married with Children’): “When you pour a gallon of knowledge into a shot glass-sized brain, you’re bound to spill some.” (this sits in front of me at my desk so that I can look at it and take a deep breath whenever I’m on the verge of strangling a co-worker that has managed to live up to the quote)

Finally: I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. –Voltaire

Here’s one of my favorites from Saint Agustine:

“The measure of love is to love without measure.”

“Love is blind.”

and this is my favorite………

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a
living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the
circumstances and the time in which it is used. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,
jurist (1841-1935)

If hunger is not the problem, food is not the solution.

I also have some that I have for work:

“It is what it is” (Which to me is, regarless of the reason something happened, it’s my job to fix it.)
“Be excellent to one another.” Bill and Ted
“Be kind to yourself” Anon
“Failure IS an option.” (I test emerging technologies. We try and make it work…but sometimes failure is the answer.)
and “What did the fish say when it swam into the wall? Dam…”

Those hang up, but I have numerous quotation books in my office.

doglady, I’m so glad you enjoyed TCAH! I had a great time watching Sophie try and torture Dougal, but had the upper hand all of the time . . . well, he did until it came to fighting his own desires for her.

And I’m glad to see a fellow Kahlil Gabran fan!

evign, that’s so cool that your father was able to say something so profound that it changed your outlook for the better! I love that. I hope I’m able to pull off that miracle for my own kids when they need it, too.