"Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent."

"There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled."

"Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side."

"To oblige persons often costs little and helps much."

"To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else."

“To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.”

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. A second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. A first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”

“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”

“I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn't anymore.”

“You never can tell with bees.”

“There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said "Nobody.”

“We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see”

“So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.”

“It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.”

“I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.”

"Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets."

"He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well."

"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."

"Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do."

"Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check."

"He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave."

"To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth."

"I strive to be brief, and I become obscure."

"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards."

"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit."

"When desire dies, fear is born."

"Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second."

"Begin with another's to end with your own."

"Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one."

"Have friends. 'Tis a second existence."

"Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise."

"At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing."

"Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art."

"One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity."

"Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one."

“Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.”

“But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.”

“Lots of people talk to animals...Not very many listen though...that's the problem.”

“But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.”

“For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.”

“Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits...”

“No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.”

“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

“Organization is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it’s not all mixed up.”

“Promise you won't forget me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred.”

"The things we remember best are those better forgotten."

"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."

"He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything."

"Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it."

"Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it."