Literary Quotes Needed

[snow_lion]

I have a friend who owns a bookstore. She wants to paint great quotes from literature on the walls to decorate. But she's too busy right now, working full time and running her own business beside, to find them. I thought I might ask here. Do you have a favorite literary quote you think should be enshrined on a bookstore wall?

Comments

[snowgoddyss]

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become
great." Mark Twain

[inanna]

"This above all, to thine own self be true."

William Shakespeare

[rhiannonrising]

find her some rediculous drug induced quote from jim morrison's poetry. but um, if you saw my website you really wouldnt be taking business related advice from me ;)

[hakerh]

"Time is an illusion; lunchtime doubly so."
- Douglas Adams

"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow - truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot." - Neil Gaiman

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read." - Abraham Lincoln

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend; and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

"I have always imagined that Paradise is a kind of library." - Jorge Luis Borges

"The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one." - Sir James Goldsmith

Hope that helps. :)

~Elinor