Did you ever stop to think and forget to start again?

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism agnosticism disbelief – call it what you will – than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema motor-bicycle and golf course.

Bores can be divided into two classes those who have their own particular subject and those who do not need a subject.

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

Dont underestimate the value of doing nothing of just going along listening to all the thing you cant hear and not bothering.

Some people care too much. I think its called love.

War is something of mans own fostering and if all mankind renounces it then it is no longer there.

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesnt use long difficult words but rather short easy words like What about lunch?

To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.

If one is to be called a liar one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

My spelling is Wobbly. Its good spelling but it Wobbles and the letters get in the wrong places.

Promise me youll always remember: Youre braver than you believe and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.

Is The Wind in the Willows a childrens book? Is Alice in Wonderland? Is Treasure Island? These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.

Organizing is what you do before you do something so that when you do it it is not all mixed up.

Never forget me because if I thought you would Id never leave.

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

What I say is that if a fellow really likes potatoes he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

Weeds are flowers too once you get to know them.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Tiggers dont like honey.

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

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

You cant stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

If you live to be a hundred I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.