It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said “Mate!” in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.
I just wanted to be sure of you.
For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.
Sing Ho for the Life of a Bear.
Let’s begin by taking a smallish nap or two.
To seem natural rather than to be natural.
What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.
Once upon a time there were three little foxes Who didn’t wear stockings, and they didn’t wear sockses, But they all had handkerchiefs to blow their noses, And they kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes.
I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name.
Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.
Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he never could remember how to begin.
No sensible author wants anything but praise.
I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
I have a house where I go, When there’s too many people, I have a house where I go Where no one can be; I have a house where I go, Where nobody ever says “no” Where no one says anything – so There is no one but me.
What ever fortune brings, don’t be afraid of doing things.
The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen.
It’s so much more friendly with two.
If there’s a buzzing-noise, somebody’s making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you’re a bee.
And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.
What I like doing best is Nothing.