Words worth keeping

You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places.""Enormous?" said Jace. "Did you just call me fat?""It was an analogy.""I am not fat.

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

And so it goes...

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Forever is composed of nows.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.